Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Archival photoMOSCOW, February 18Rome and Moscow are working out the date of the visit of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi to Russia, it may take place before the end of the month, Italian Ambassador to Russia Giorgio Starace told RIA Novosti. preparations for a visit to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to a RIA Novosti source in the leadership of the Italian Council of Ministers, the visit of the Italian prime minister to Russia is possible not within the next few days, but later, when the schedules of Draghi and the President of the Russian Federation are agreed. 02/3646b981c77a100a16df422f02ea80bc.jpg» />Italian Prime Minister Draghi did not rule out an imminent visit to Russia»We do not yet have dates for a visit. But I can say that during the talks between Foreign Ministers Luigi di Maio and Sergey Lavrov, they were reminded of the invitation to Prime Minister Draghi from the President Putin to visit Moscow. We are working on agreeing on possible dates. We need to exchange ideas about the possibilities of the parties, schedules, etc.,» Starace said. Answering a clarifying question whether the visit could take place before the end of the month, the ambassador said: «I would I wanted to, but I can't say.» «I think that in the next few days we will be able to understand more precisely. I hope he can arrive before spring, but I repeat that I don't know yet,» the ambassador added.
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