https://www.pupia.tv - Astana (Kazakhstan) - Intervento del Presidente Meloni all'Astana International Forum Astana (Kazakhstan), 30/05/2025 - Il Presidente del Consiglio, Giorgia Meloni, interviene all'Astana International Forum.
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00:00Grazie a tutti e grazie a tutti per questa presentazione che non mi permetteva.
00:14I'm very pleased to be here today in Astana and to take part in this important event of discussion and dialogue promoted by President Tokayev and the Kazakh government.
00:30To them I want to convey my greetings, my gratitude for the invitation and the world welcome I have been given.
00:44Today marks the beginning of my first official visit to Kazakhstan since the start of my term as President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Italy.
01:00A visit that I do not consider just protocol but of substance.
01:06We intend to seal the friendship that unites our nations with concrete facts by announcing our strategic collaboration on many crucial fields.
01:19And this visit also marks a historic moment in our relations, the first summit between Italy and the five Central Asian nations.
01:32I treasured this event and I wish to thank not only President Tokayev who agreed to our state but also President Yaparov, President Ramon, President Berdimoyedov and President Mirzioev also for the very special time I had in Uzbekistan.
01:53I'm certain it will be a decisive moment to intensify our relations and make them even more sound, long lasting and strategic.
02:06And this is not a path that begins today, but one we have been pursuing together for some time.
02:16Italy was the first nation in the EU to decide to invest in relation with Central Asia and its individual member nation, launching a permanent format in order to share ideas.
02:33We have shown the way and our example has indeed led the path as proven by the first EU Central Asia Summit last April, which not surprisingly elevated the relations between the region and the European Union to a strategic partnership.
02:56We are proud of this choice since the capacity to create bridges and opportunities for dialogue by exploring avenues that others have not had the courage to pursue is in the DNA of Italian people.
03:19This is a legacy we learned from one of the most famous Italians in history, Marco Polo, who centuries ago crossed these lands to reach the farthest borders in the then known world.
03:38There is no better symbol to describe what we celebrate today, cooperation, vision, responsibility, but also the ability to look beyond the horizon and to learn to understand others, their values, their potential with respect and with humility.
04:01One of the fathers of modern geopolitics, Halford Mackinder, made the argument that Central Asia represents one of the pivots around which the fate of the war revolves.
04:15I'm not a geopolitical scholar, but I simply observe reality.
04:22And reality tells us this region has always been a crossroads between the West and the East and occupies a strategic role in the global scenario.
04:34Moreover, in difficult times as those we are in.
04:42Central Asia has always been a bridge.
04:46The transformations and changes this part of the planet has undergone over the centuries have made it what it is today.
04:54The hinge between two continents, the point of contact between Europe and Asia, the junction between worlds that once were very distant but now are more interconnected than ever.
05:11And I know what it means.
05:14For I say this as an Italian, as a daughter to a nation that occupies a pivotal position between Europe and Africa at the very center of that global Mediterranean that casts its relevance far beyond its own geographic space.
05:33So I believe there is no better place than here to ponder the connections that bind us and those we can build without fear of going beyond the patterns to which we have been accustomed.
05:50That is why new opportunities of cooperation can be created even among, maybe moreover among, partners who are seemingly far apart and have profoundly different histories.
06:07Partners who, however, are capable of seeing the chessboard as a whole and not just a single quadrant that apparently concerns them most closely.
06:20This is Italy's approach, and I know it is also your approach, in the direction of a truly global interconnection from Asia to Europe, from the Mediterranean to the Indo-Pacific.
06:35But if we really want to shape the future, as the title of this forum invites us to do, we must have the courage to look beyond our geographical boundaries and pave new paths.
06:51Starting, of course, with what already unites us and makes our relationship extremely strong.
06:58I am thinking of the energy sector where our cooperation can help make a difference, both in the more traditional and the more innovative fields,
07:07in line with that technological neutrality principle that we are committed to affirm to secure sustainable economic and social systems.
07:18I am also referring to critical raw materials, where our collaboration aims to generate shared benefits and mutual opportunities.
07:28I am not forgetting environmental challenges, as the one in which we are at the forefront of regeneration efforts in the RLC heritage that it is our task and duty to protect.
07:41The Italian Climate Fund is an important tool we would like to harness even more to strengthen further shared projects.
07:52Our interconnections also look to digital and physical infrastructures, of which the middle corridor is probably the most promising and fascinating challenge.
08:05We strongly believe in enhancing this project, which is at the core of this strategic partnership initiated with the EU in Samarkand,
08:14and can make a significant contribution to supply chain security and stability, both to and from Europe.
08:22The interdependence of our destinies is a fact.
08:28Even when we are called upon to jointly defend our security, the security of our citizens, the security of our people,
08:37we must continue to join our efforts also to fight terrorism, dismantle transnational criminal organizations that profit from drug, arms and human trafficking.
08:51So, dear friends, everything around us seems to be changing.
09:01And the few certainties we thought we had are no longer there.
09:07In this shift in epoch, the homogeneous blocks of the past no longer exist.
09:15And relations between nations are based on new and very often unprecedented patterns.
09:24Present times are challenging us, testing each of us.
09:30But it is an occasion.
09:32It is an occasion of showing our value and it is up to us to decide how to act.
09:42We can take refuge in the now faded certainties of the past, or we can try to look beyond showing the courage that our peoples expect from us.
09:56I have no doubt and I know that I am not alone along this path.
