article_snippet.sent: The plans for military intervention are there.'
article_snippet.sent: Italian defence minister Roberta Pinotti was speaking a day before the European Union leaders hold an emergency summit in Brussels on the crisis.
article_snippet.sent: Italian defence minister Roberta Pinotti Italian defence minister Roberta Pinotti said Italian defence minister Roberta Pinotti was cautiously hopeful that an emergency summit in Brussels would take tangible steps to deal with the crisis.
article_snippet.sent: We think it's the moment in which Europe decides, forcefully, to have an international police operation, which will undo this band of criminals,' Italian defence minister Roberta Pinotti said.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Pinotti said Italy would be ready to take the helm of any military intervention if asked and as long as the helm of any military intervention is carried out as an international mission, backed by the United Nations. '