Italy's FM Antonio Tajani meets Lebanon's new president Josep Aoun for talks in Beirut

Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has met with Lebanon's newly-elected President Joseph Aoun successful Beirut.

After their meeting, Tajani praised Aoun's leadership, saying that a president with a "very influential personality" would assistance lend towards bid successful the region.

Speaking astatine the Italian Embassy, Tajani said Lebanon's stableness could assistance enforce the ceasefire and lend to efforts to found a ceasefire successful Gaza.

"I deliberation that the stableness of Lebanon volition fortify ceasefires successful the southbound of the state and volition besides help, I think, velocity up the ceasefire successful Gaza. There are hostages, determination are excessively galore dead, and so, either for the Palestinian colonisation oregon for the hostages, we indispensable hurry," helium told reporters.

Tajani besides held a video telephone with officers and soldiers of the Italian battalion serving with the United Nations Interim Force successful Lebanon (UNIFIL).

Italy maintains a contingent of astir 1,067 troops wrong UNIFIL, including the Italair unit, a associated forces squad operating helicopters.

Italair is staffed chiefly by unit from the Italian Army, with contributions from the Navy and Air Force.

Established successful 1979, it is Italy's longest-serving planetary ngo unit, consistently supporting UN activities successful Lebanon.

In December, Tajani condemned an onslaught connected a UNIFIL base which wounded 4 Italian peacekeepers.

The basal was deed by rockets allegedly fired by Hezbollah oregon its affiliates during a twelvemonth of hostilities betwixt the militant radical and Israel which ended with a ceasefire successful precocious November past year.

That onslaught was besides criticised by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

UNIFIL is an planetary ngo established by the United Nations Security Council successful 1978 to reconstruct bid and information successful confederate Lebanon, adjacent the Israeli border.

Tajani's talks with Aoun successful Beirut travel connected the aforesaid time he met Syria’s de facto person Ahmed al-Sharaa successful his archetypal sojourn to Damascus since the autumn past twelvemonth of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad.

Al-Sharaa took bureau arsenic the caput of the caller Syrian medication aft the lightning rebel violative which toppled al-Assad's authorities successful December.

Tajani besides held discussions with Syria’s Foreign Minister, Asaad al-Shaibani.

"Italy is acceptable to bash its portion to promote the betterment process successful Syria," Tajani said successful Damascus, pointing retired that Italy reopened its embassy successful Damascus past year.

"We privation to relaunch economical practice successful important sectors. We privation to beryllium a span betwixt the caller Syria and the EU."