Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio argues that channels of confrontation with all representative subjects should be held in Syria and that greater impetus should also be given to dialogue with Damascus. Among the interlocutors of the European Union and our country, therefore, in his opinion, there must be the never ousted Syrian president Bashar El Assad, a traditional knowledge of Italy with which representatives of our state have reduced and less publicized relations after the rais , in 2011, he began to fire on the street riots. Di Maio also claims to have spoken frankly and constructively - that is, without hiding the differences and trying to reassemble them - to his Turkish colleague Mevlut Cavusoglu. On an insidious case: the sending of military ships near Cyprus by Ankara to discourage Eni's exploration of hydrocarbons.