Di Maio-Lavrov, the meeting on the Ukrainian crisis
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio he met his Russian counterpart in Moscow Sergej Lavrov for an interview on the Ukrainian crisis. Lavrov opened the press conference after the meeting by announcing that today the Russian Federation will send a letter of response to the US regarding the proposals on the solution in the Donbass specifying that it will be both paper and electronic but above all public “because we believe it is essential that people can have a precise idea OF what is happening and to prevent public opinion from bowing to lies about what is happening on the border between Russia and Ukraine “.
Minister Di Maio revealed that he is working on a date for a meeting between Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Vladimir Putin in Moscow, at the invitation of the Russian president, and has always used soothing words marked by the search for the maximum possible dialogue: “In light of what Minister Kuleba and Minister Lavrov reported to me on Tuesday in Kiev, there is therefore a willingness on both sides to find a diplomatic solution.
Diplomacy, common sense, the main road to avoid a conflict that could generate devastating consequences for the entire continent must prevail. Peace, which removes any drama from uncontrolled effects, is the guideline to continue to follow, it is the only way that can lead us to lasting stability. Arms leave room for diplomacy. Italy is among the most active countries to achieve this goal “.
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Di Maio stressed that his mission also serves to “avoid any kind of sanction thanks to diplomacy which sees Italy involved in the front row “. More rigid Lavrov who spoke of”cyber terrorism and propaganda BY some Western countries on the alleged invasion of Ukraine by Russia, escalation is their invention and I have no words to define this behavior. “Then he added:” Sanctions cannot be launched if at least one country is against it and I don’t think Italy is interested in stirring up tension. We see that it follows the tradition of its diplomacy: it does not threaten continuously, it does not promise punishment, but it seeks solutions.
We appreciate the role that Italy plays in the Russia-NATO Council or in the OSCE, where it stands for constructive dialogue, and does not share the position of those who would like to transform the OSCE into an arena of opposition. We will again politely but insistently ask our Western colleagues that each respond in his national capacity and explain the position as a result of the documents signed then, which no one has canceled, and how they intend to implement them “.
Ukraine, Lavrov for now excludes a resumption of the NATO-Russia Council
NATO’s sense of infallibility and superiority “has gone beyond the limits”. He reported it on Russian Foreign Minister, Serghei Lavrovat a press conference after the talks with the colleague Luigi Di Maioadding that Russia considers it impossible to resume work on the NATO-Russia Council.
“When you are ready for a normal dialogue,” he added, referring indirectly to the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, “let us know and we will get back to work”. At the moment, relations between the Alliance and Russia are frozen after the closure of the respective diplomatic missions. According to Lavrov, NATO is doing exactly what Moscow accuses of: strengthen its military presence close to the Russian borders.
Ukraine, Radicals: “Di Maio’s trip to Russia without results”
“As was to be expected, Minister Di Maio’s trip to Moscow did not produce no tangible results. Di Maio he did not ask the Russian counterpart for reassurance and tangible evidence of the withdrawal of the Di Moscow soldiers from the borders with Ukraine “, declared Massimiliano Iervolino, Igor Boni, Di Radicali Italiani secretary and president and Giulio Manfredi of the radical association Adelaide Aglietta.
“The information and images disseminated by osint (open source intelligence) sources testify that the alleged Russian withdrawal is not underway at allIndeed, many units of Moscow have come even closer to the Ukrainian border. Di Maio did not even ask his counterpart Lavrov reassurances on the situation in Donbass, even more so after the mortar attack against an asylum in Ukrainian territory carried out by pro-Russian separatists. There is an illuminating detail: Donbass secessionists accuse Ukraine of ‘terrorism’ just as the pro-Nazi separatists of the Sudetenland, incited by Hitler and Goebbels, accused Czechoslovakia of “terrorism” in 1938.
Faced with all this, we have an Italian Foreign Minister who, since he entered the Farnesina in September 2019, has had President Mattarella confer honors of the Republic to twenty-two members of the Di Putin regime. And that it is careful to respond to the formal request of Italian Radicals, sent on two occasions both to the Farnesina and to the Quirinale, to revoke these honors “, they conclude.
Italy “pulled” between Kiev and Moscow
On the Ukrainian crisis, Italy is “pulled” by Kiev and Moscow. The newspaper “Le Monde” writes it, explaining that Rome has aligned itself with the positions of France and Germany although she has always been careful in preserving good relations with Russia for its energy dependence. Since the beginning of the crisis, Italian diplomacy has always shown itself to be “discreet” but now it seems willing to “make itself heard”, writes “Le Monde” after seeing the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio in Kiev and Moscow.
The French newspaper explains how the dossier divides the Italian political world, with the Democratic party calling for firmness against Russia, while the Lega is more indulgent. “” The US alliance “is” a fundamental fact “, explains an Italian diplomatic source to the newspaper.” Even at the time of the first Conte government, openly pro-Russian, nothing concrete was undertaken to return to the sanctions (to Russia). Italy can be tempted, verbally, by a form of non-alignment “but”will never take the step“, adds the source.
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