the Italian mercantile ships will not be able more to embark military in function anti-piracy



The employment of boarded the military Nuclei of protection will stop on the Italian mercantile ships. It has yesterday announced the minister of the Defense, Roberta Pinotti, in the course of a audition to the Commission reunited Foreign countries and Defense of Chamber and Senate to which he has illustrated as the Italian engagement in the fight to piracy will be modified.

Italy - it has specified the minister - will continue to participate to the mission Red admiral, but it will finish the employment of boarded the military Nuclei of protection on the Italian mercantile ships and will interrupt the participation to the Born mission Ocean Shield. Roberta Pinotti has explained that the decision is assumed "considered the positive trend represented from the decrease of attacks in recent months of the pirates, let alone by now happened improvement of the procedures that allow to resort to the defense of the cargo vessels".

The decision - it has left to intend, more than asserted, the minister - is tied also to the event of the two riflemen naval who give the 2012 are in the middle of a judicial case in India as accused to have murdered two fishermen, exchanging them for pirates, while they were boarded on the Enrica Lexie oil tanker. "The government - Roberta Pinotti has said - has listened to the most recent deliberations of the Parliament, in particular those which they demanded to reexamine the relative choices in our participation to the activities of contrast in relation to the development in the event of the riflemen naval".

In the course of the audition the minister has emphasized as the Africa North represents before the worries of the government and, referring to the recent one attacks terrorist in Tunisia, has specified that "as a result of aggravating itself of the terrorist threat a potenziamento of the sea and air device in the central Mediterranean" with the objective of "protecting the multiple national interests has become necessary, today exposed to increasing it risks determined from the presence of extremist entities, and to assure coherent levels of marine safety". The all integrated one - it has specified - in the Mare Sicuro operation.

Against a progressive worsening of the picture of safety in Libya, and the persistent institutional chaos, Roberta Pinotti it has announced also the suspension of in the territory Libyan activity, adding that "Italy is ready to return to play a role of relief in a future, eventual initiative of the international community that was time to the stabilization and the institutional reconstruction of Libya".