It is not time for a military solution. This was stated by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, during an interview with Tg5 in which he commented on the latest developments in Libya: "The situation is difficult and the country is out of control". Renzi, however, recommended "wisdom, prudence and a sense of the situation: do not go from total indifference to hysteria, to unreasonable concern".
The premier, therefore, relies more on the United Nations than on the military forces: “The international community, if it wants, has all the tools to be able to intervene. The proposal is to wait for the UN Security Council. The strength of the UN is decidedly superior to the radical militias”. The theme of the Libyan crisis will also be at the center of today's meeting of the secretariat of the Democratic Party.
This morning Renzi also held a long telephone conversation with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to agree on the political and diplomatic steps to be taken to address the Libyan crisis and restore peace to the country. A conversation made particularly urgent by the latest developments in the North African country, with the video, released by ISIS jihadists, of the beheading of a group of Egyptian Coptic Christians in Tripoli.
In the video, which sparked the Egyptian retaliation, the militiamen launched an explicit threat to Italy: "First you saw us in Syria, now we are here, south of Rome".
