ROME-An invite has been sent to the Italian government by Andrea Riccardi to sign an appeal against the violence in Aleppo and present it to Europe.

 In its role as leader of the European Union during this half of the year, Italy needs to push for a global political solution, says Andrea Riccardi. Already 160,000 people have died, including 12,000 children whilst 6 million people have become refugees, inside and outside Syria.

 The humanitarian drama in Syria is not just an issue for the Middle East, but for the whole world. UNICEF, many parliamentarians, Italian and international personalities have already backed the call from Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio, to save Aleppo. The city that has become a symbol of a war that risks  destabilising the entire Middle East and putting an end to the idea of  harmony between religions and ethnic groups, after centuries of  cohabitation.

 The honourable Dellai and Marazziti have made an urgent call to the Italian government. In a setting of international impotence and faced with an upheaval in the northern Mediterranean area, renewed escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, border changes between Iraq and Syria and the forced "islamisation" of entire areas it is especially from Aleppo that new hope could emerge.

 The Vice-Minister Pistelli responded by guaranteeing an extraordinary commitment from Italy to  launch new humanitarian pathways in cooperation with Turkey and to  submit the appeal to the entire Italian government.

 "Taking note of the commitment and attention that the Italian government has shown to the crisis in Syria," said Marazziti-- "but faced with the  difficulties the international community has in identifying an effective  solution for this conflict, while the noise of war and suffering  continues to prevent requests for help to reach us, I ask the entire  government to sign the Save Aleppo call and take it to Europe."