The defense of nations, identities and homelands, the use of reason and not force. The war in Ukraine, in the face of which Italy "chose which side to be on".
But, above all, the theme of migration , with the emergency that is affecting Italy in recent days.
"Can an organization like this, which affirms in its founding act 'faith in the dignity and value of the human person' really turn the other way in the face of this massacre?", said Giorgia Meloni in her speech to the general assembly of the UN, launching the appeal to all act together "to combat human traffickers" .
«Really – insisted the Prime Minister – we can pretend not to see that today in the world there is no more profitable criminal activity than migrant trafficking, when the UN reports certify how this business has reached drug trafficking in terms of money, and largely surpassed that of weapons? Truly this Assembly, which in other times played a fundamental role in definitively eradicating that universal crime that was slavery, can tolerate its return today in other forms, the continued commodification of human life, the fact that there are women brought to Europe to prostitute themselves to repay enormous debts contracted with traffickers, or men abandoned in the hands of organized crime? Can we really say that it is solidarity to give priority to welcoming not those who really need it most but rather those who have the money to pay these traffickers, and allowing the traffickers to establish who has the right to safety? I think no".
Again: «The human traffickers who organize mass illegal immigration trafficking – underlined Meloni – delude themselves into thinking that by trusting them those who want to migrate will find a better life, they charge thousands of dollars for trips to Europe which they sell with brochures as if they were normal travel agencies, but in those brochures they don't write that those trips too often lead to death , to a grave at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Because they don't care whether the boat is suitable for that journey or not, what's important to them is only the profit margin."
The prime minister, who did not go to Joe Biden's traditional reception but took her staff and daughter Ginevra to a well-known pizzeria in Manhattan, did not speak to the Security Council. She was engaged, explains Palazzo Chigi, in a round of bilateral meetings almost all focused on Africa . And Meloni's staff specifies that, after having attended the first part of the historic debate (Volodymyr Zelensky and Serghei Lavrov present), the prime minister had the opportunity to speak with the Ukrainian president in the corridors of the UN building. Then the meeting with Secretary Antonio Guterres, who asked for greater involvement of the United Nations on migrants.
At the end of his speech Meloni also called for «a reform of the Security Council that makes it more representative, transparent and effective . Which guarantees a more equitable geographical distribution of seats and also strengthens regional representation. May it emerge from the crystallized structure following the outcome of a conflict that ended eighty years ago, in another century, another millennium, to give everyone the opportunity to demonstrate their value in the present."
(Unioneonline/L)