Italian PM: ‘We Have to Be Honest in Recognizing’ We Made Mistakes in Libya

‘If you have a failed state, a fragile government in this situation, there is always the risk of terrorism infiltrating and terrorist threats’

RUSH EXCERPT:

BAIER: “Your country about the U.S. To fight drones from sicily into Libya to fight ISIS. How would he describe the relationship today?” 
GENTILONI: “The support of the government with U.S. Air action and with our logistics support has been very effective, and now it is no more there. But if you have a failed state, a fragile government in this situation, there is always the risk of terrorism infiltrating and terrorist threats. So what we need is, having made some mistake in Libya, we, the Italians, the Americans, the French, the U.K., we have to be honest in recognizing this. Now we have a duty, even a moral duty to contribute to stabilize. It is still fragile. There is a government, but we have to enlarge spaces and to gather other forces around this government.”

Video files
Full
Compact
Audio files
Full
Compact