(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 16 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday said in a message sent to the the 17th States General of Diplomacy conference, which is taking place at the foreign ministry in Rome, that the Middle East deserves to leave behind its state of crisis and that the truce in Lebanon and the ouster of former president Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria represent an opportunity. (ANSA).