Venezuela, Italian PM: “Military action is not the way but a legitimate defensive intervention”

Rome, Jan. 3 (LaPresse) – “Consistent with Italy’s historic position, the Government believes that external military action is not the path to end totalitarian regimes, but at the same time considers a defensive intervention against hybrid attacks on its own security legitimate, as in the case of state entities that support and promote drug trafficking.” This was stated in a note from Palazzo Chigi following the U.S. attack in Venezuela. “The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has been monitoring developments in Venezuela from their earliest stages. Italy has always supported the Venezuelan people’s aspiration for a democratic transition in Venezuela, condemning acts of repression by the Maduro regime, whose self-proclaimed electoral victory Italy, along with major international partners, has never recognized,” the note added.