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<div class="articleBodyText section"> <div class="component article-body-text " data-test="article-body-text"> <p>A video of <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/giorgia-meloni/">Giorgia Meloni</a>, the Italian prime minister, rolling her eyes appears to have stolen the show at the Nato summit in Washington DC.</p><p>The footage shows the world leader grimacing and crossing her eyes in apparent frustration at the 20-minute delay to the scheduled arrival of <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/joe-biden/">Joe Biden</a>, the US president, to <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/nato/">the summit</a>.</p><p>Ms Meloni was caught on camera with her arms folded as she made the gesture while waiting with Alexander Stubb, the <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finland/">Finnish</a> president, and other officials.&nbsp;</p><p>She also pretended to look at an imaginary watch on her wrist to indicate her impatience.</p><p>Mr Stubb was then seen checking the time on his phone before the prime minister again rolled her eyes with a disgruntled look on her face. She then appeared to smile briefly for the cameras.</p> </div>
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<div class="articleBodyText section"> <div class="component article-body-text " data-test="article-body-text"> <p>It is not the first time Ms Meloni has rolled her eyes in public. She has also been seen making the gesture in apparent frustration during television interviews.</p><p>At the end of the Nato summit, the prime minister reiterated Italy’s <a class="ck-custom-link" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/russia-ukraine-invasion-live/">support for Ukraine</a> and indirectly chided Matteo Salvini, her deputy premier and transport minister, after he suggested that sending military aid to Kyiv was only prolonging the war.</p><p>“The balance sheet of this Nato summit is positive,” Ms Meloni told reporters.</p> </div>
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Italian prime minister also pretended to look at imaginary watch during moment of frustration at Nato summit{ai:summary}<p>Italian PM Giorgia Meloni eye-rolls at Biden's late arrival at Nato summit in DC, also late for press conference. #foreignaffairs                                                                                                                              </p><p>Meloni expresses support for Ukraine at the summit and indirectly criticises Deputy PM Salvini's stance on military aid. #politics</p>