NAPLES, ITALY: G7 defence ministers convened Saturday (Oct 19) in opposition to a backdrop of escalation within the Center East and mounting stress on Ukraine because it faces one other winter of combating.
Italy, holding the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven nations, organised the physique’s first ministerial assembly devoted to defence, staged in Naples, the southern metropolis that can also be house to a NATO base.
Invited to the one-day talks had been NATO chief Mark Rutte and the EU’s overseas coverage chief, Josep Borrell.
Borrell informed reporters the group had a lot to debate, together with latest strikes on the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, and the potential of a ceasefire in Gaza.
The summit comes two days after Israel introduced it had killed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the October 7, 2023 assaults on Israel that triggered the devastating retaliatory warfare in Gaza.
“Definitely after the killing of Yahya Sinwar a brand new perspective is open and we have now to make use of it with a purpose to attain a ceasefire, to launch the remaining hostages and to search for a political perspective,” Borrell informed journalists.
