NNA - Premier Giorgia Meloni said Monday that her government has signed 40 new agreements with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after meeting the Middle Eastern country's President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Rome on Monday. 

"I consider this a historic day," Meloni told the Italy-United Arab Emirates Business Forum at Rome's Parco dei Principi hotel after meeting Al Nahyan at the premier's office at Palazzo Chigi.

"Sometimes we use this word inappropriately, but this is one of the cases in which is not inappropriate to speak of a historic day. 

"This Business Forum is a milestone in the relationship between our nations during the first State visit of a UAE President to Italy. 
 
"We have decided to take bilateral cooperation to a level never reached before. And today we signed over 40 bilateral agreements. 
 
"Today marks another starting point in our bilateral cooperation". --(ANSA).

==========R.H.