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Reuters
Politics
Gavin Jones

Italy's Draghi to meet Biden as coalition frets over arms to Ukraine

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden is greeted by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi as he arrives for the G20 leaders' summit in Rome, Italy October 30, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Pool/File Photo

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi heads to Washington on Tuesday to meet U.S. President Joe Biden against an awkward domestic backdrop, with coalition leaders voicing growing dissent over supplying more weapons to Ukraine.

Former premier Giuseppe Conte, whose 5-Star Movement is the largest party in parliament, has called for Draghi to seek a diplomatic solution to the war rather than send "heavier and more lethal weapons" that Conte says risk fuelling the conflict.

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