"I am not deciding now" how many Italian military ships will be sent to guarantee navigation in the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb. "It is a situation of these days, we will assess with the government and Parliament what will be necessary to do, the important thing is to restore traffic, so these are ships that, if we send them, we send them to protect merchant vessels." This is what Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on the sidelines of the fourth edition of the 'Risorsa Mare' forum. "Djibouti is not currently being affected by what the Houthis are doing, I am interested in restoring the traffic of Italian ships through the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb," Crosetto reiterated.
"We have decided, with the Chief of Staff, not to wait for Aspides to decide whether ships can pass or not." This is what Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said while speaking at the fourth edition of the Risorsa Mare Forum in La Spezia, discussing the situation in the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb. "We will probably take action in such a way that Italian ships can begin to pass without waiting for European bureaucracy to be added to our own, because delaying timeframes in cases like this means delaying the economy, it means aggravating problems." He then added: "When we can, we intervene to alleviate crises."
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