President Obama and Prime Minister Renzi Discuss Security

President Barack Obama and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi discussed the security situation in Iraq and Libya on April 17. Renzi also held talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Italian economy during his visit to Washington DC on Friday, April 17.

“We also spent a considerable amount of time discussing our deep, shared concern for the situation in Libya, where we continue to support U.N. efforts to form a unity government,” said Obama. “Given Italy’s leadership role across the Mediterranean, the prime minister and I agreed to work together even more intensively to encourage cooperation on threats coming from Libya, including the growing ISIL presence there, as well as additional coordination with other partners in how we can stabilize what has become a very deadly and difficult situation.”

This video features footage from the joint press conference at the White House. Credit: YouTube/The White House