Her comments came upon arriving at the extraordinary EU summit on the Middle East in Brussels Thursday.
“I think one of the most effective instruments to defeat Hams is to give concreteness and a time frame to the Palestinian question,” she said.
“Give greater weight to the Palestinian National Authority.
“That is a role that Europe can play.”
Meanwhile, President Sergio Mattarella said Thursday that the United Nations must not be criticised but strengthened.
His defence of the organisation comes in the wake of resignation calls for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who condemned the brutality of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel but said it did not come out of nothing, but after 56 years of “suffocating occupation”, voicing concern over Israel’s alleged violation of international law in its retaliatory airstrikes on Gaza.
“Sometimes we turn to the UN with a critical spirit, emphasising its limitations rather than its successes,” Mattarella said, speaking at the Quirinale presidential palace to young officials of a joint program between the Foreign Ministry and the United Nations.
“We forget that the capacity of the UN depends on the willingness of the member states.
“Therefore, according to Italy, it is necessary to clearly state that the United Nations is and remains the most effective instrument for resolving tensions and disputes.
“For this reason, the UN must be strengthened in all possible ways, including with reforms that ensure greater operational capacity.”
Several UN Gaza ceasefire resolutions have been vetoed by the US.
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