Tajani says Atalanta and Aspides missions remain with their mandates

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 16 - Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said after a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels Monday that the EU's Atalanta and Aspides naval missions off east Africa will remain with their current mandates and will not be expanded to the Strait of Hormuz despite United States President Donald Trump's threats to his NATO allies of a "very bad future" if they did not heed his calls for help to clear the strategic oil chokehold amid Iranian attacks. "The Atalanta ...

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