Italy's premier says troops in Gaza only after Israeli-Palestinian agreement.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of unattributed report entitled "Prodi tells Olmert: Italians in Gaza only after an accord" published by Italian newspaper La Repubblica on 10 December

Bologna: Italian troops in Gaza? In the view of [Italian] Prime Minister Romano Prodi, it is too soon to be thinking about a concrete solution for the Gaza Strip; and in any case, all intervention must be preceded "by an accord between the Israelis and the Palestinians." That was Prodi's response to the invitation-cum-provocation issued by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday evening [8 December] in the course of an interview with Tg1 [Italian state …