Italian Foreign Minister, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, said that his country depends on the active participation of Russia and the United States in the Palermo Conference to be held next November on the Libyan crisis.

"We have great confidence in the Palermo Conference for Libya; so we called for the active engagement of Russia and the United States," Milanesi clarified in his speech at the Transatlantic Forum on Russia.

The Palermo conference will be held on 12-13 November, and will discuss the political developments in the Libyan arena.

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