The European Union (EU) should engage Syria and Iran "in an active and
positive manner in the search of a solution" to conflicts in Lebanon, Italian
Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said two days after the Rome conference.
In an interview with the French daily Le Monde in its Friday edition, the
Italian Foreign Minister said: "It is important that Syria and Iran help us to
resolve the problems."
"At the meeting of European foreign ministers on August 1, we must ask
ourselves how to develop an initiative which engages these two countries in an
active and positive manner in the search of a solution," he said.
On Wednesday, 15 nations attended a crisis conference on the Israeli-Lebanese
conflict in Rome. Neither Israel, nor Iran, nor Syria were present.
