"The only road to the end of the conflict is the one indicated by Kiev". Unaware of the Pope's peace plan, siding with Zelensky, the EU and NATO, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, in an interview with La Stampa newspaper, clarifies Italy's position to push Moscow to withdraw from Ukraine, certain that in the debate between supposed pacifists and supposed warmongers, those who pretend to be neutral are only indifferent. Or, worse, complicit with Putin. The holder of the Foreign Ministry stresses that a just peace would be "The one in which international law is restored and the Russians withdraw from Ukrainian territory". To the objection that this will not happen, Tajani reacts with a "We will see". "Italy," the vice-premier then adds, "is ready to listen to any proposal that could lead to the end of the conflict, but our position - which is the same as that of Europe and NATO - is clear: we support the ten points of Zelensky's peace proposal. No one can imagine solutions that are not shared with Kiev. Otherwise we would not be talking about peace, but about a Ukrainian defeat". Is the two Koreas model, with the Donbass in Russian hands, inadmissible? "It is; moreover, the proposal is not on the table. No concessions can be made. The minimum is for the Russians to withdraw from the ground, then we can start talking again".
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