DPR servicemen at a checkpoint near the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. File photoROME, May 20.Deputy Foreign Minister of Italy Manlio Di Stefano said that the peace plan for Ukraine, which the head of the ministry, Luigi Di Maio, submitted to the UN, will require the involvement of various countries and organizations, including the EU and the UN itself. According to Di Stefano, it is clear to everyone that the resolution of the crisis in Ukraine «can only take the path of decisive diplomatic action, but above all coordinated and joint at the international level.» Where calls to eradicate the Russian world will lead Europe «It was on the basis of this understanding that Minister Luigi Di Maio, in close cooperation with the government palace of Chigi, developed the «Plan for Peace», presented in New York at talks with UN Secretary General António Guterres,» Di Stefano wrote in social networks. The day before, the newspaper la Repubblica wrote that the head of the Italian Foreign Ministry presented a four-point peace plan for Ukraine to the UN.
"This proposal, divided into four areas, which provides for a ceasefire, the neutrality of Ukraine, secured by an international political guarantee and associated with the EU accession process, the development of a bilateral agreement between Kyiv and Moscow on territorial issues and, in particular, on disputed regions Crimea and Donbass, as well as the signing of a new multilateral agreement on the reorganization of international balances, starting with relations between the European Union and Russia", — explained the Deputy Foreign Minister of Italy.
According to Di Stefano, this ambitious project requires a coordinated effort «under the auspices of the International Assistance Group, which would bring together various countries and international organizations such as the UN and the EU, and which would be tasked with the creation of peacekeeping and monitoring missions, verification activities and multilateral coordination of assistance and support for reconstruction through the «Donor Conference». The settlement project, added the Deputy Minister, is designed to ensure the territorial integrity of Ukraine, «but above all» to achieve a peaceful solution in which the EU will be called upon to play a leading role, «taking into account direct and immediate economic and energy the consequences of the crisis for the member states and its geographical proximity to Russia.” On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine.mode». According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.