Stability in the Balkans important for Italy: Stefania Craxi

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, OCT 12 - "The new fronts that are unfortunately heating up must not cause us to overlook the need to channel efforts and energy into resolving existing problems or approaching the international crisis quadrants in which we are investing with a view to stabilisation," said Stefania Craxi, president of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Commission. "The discussion is primarily aimed at the Balkan region, which represents an absolute and renewed priority for Italy, and must represent an absolute and renewed priority for Europe, especially in this troubled time," Craxi added. She also announced a meeting to be held on Friday 13 October in Trieste, with the presidents of the parliamentary delegations of the member countries of the Central European Initiative (CEI).
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