ROME (ITALPRESS) – “Kiev has already accepted the understandings, now it’s up to Moscow to show that it really wants to pursue the path to peace. It is Russia that must decide whether it wants peace or not, a peace that must be just and lasting, based on clear principles that we reiterated, most recently, at the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Canada last weeks.” This was said by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani in communications to the joint Foreign and Defense Committees of the House and Senate on international missions.
“First and foremost, any compromise must be decided with Ukraine’s assent and with the involvement of the European Union,” he added, “as I reiterated to Secretary of State Rubio, with whom I had a long conversation in Canada. He himself recognized for Europe a real role at the negotiating table.”
For Minister Tajani, “nothing can be decided about the future of Ukraine without the Ukrainians, nothing can be decided about the security of Europe without the Europeans. A lasting solution also implies security guarantees, and on this the government’s position is very clear and has been reiterated several times by Prime Minister Meloni, who is in Paris today to discuss this central issue with our main partners. We are committed to building, together with our European and Western allies, starting with the United States, solid and effective security guarantees for Ukraine that are grounded in the Euro-Atlantic context.”
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