ROME May 14 Italy ready to consider about the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine only on the basis of «ten points» of Vladimir Zelensky, said the head of the Italian Foreign Ministry, Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani in an interview with the newspaper La Stampa.
Zelensky paid a visit to Rome on Saturday, where he held meetings with Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister George Meloni, and was also received in the Vatican by Pope Francis.
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“Italy is ready to listen to any proposal that can end the conflict, but our position (the same as Europe and NATO) is clear: we support Zelensky’s ten points peace proposal. No one can imagine a solution that Kyiv does not share. Otherwise, we would not be talking about peace, but about the defeat of Ukraine,” Tajani said.
Asked if the Americans are dictating the rules of «warfare» for Italy, the vice-premier said that Rome is not waging «any war.» «We don't have a military fighting on the battlefield. We send electrical materials so that people don't die from the cold, as well as various kinds of assistance — food, financial and strategic, for example, to build «green corridors» for the passage of wheat,» he said. He. Tajani stressed that everything possible must be done to prevent the use of nuclear weapons, including tactical ones, in the conflict in Ukraine. He noted the need to urgently create a nuclear safety zone around the Zaporizhzhya NPP.
The Italian Foreign Minister added that he knew nothing about the Vatican's «peace plan» to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. Returning from an apostolic trip to Hungary on April 30, Pope Francis announced during a press conference on board the plane that the Vatican was carrying out a mission to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. According to him, «so far it is not public», and it will be possible to talk about it only later, «when it becomes public.» Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that the Kremlin has no information about the mission yet.
Russia has previously sent a note to NATO countries because of the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation stated that the NATO countries are «playing with fire» by supplying weapons to Ukraine. The Kremlin stated that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect. Lavrov also stated that the US and NATO are directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine, «including not only the supply of weapons, but also the training of personnel … in the UK, Germany, Italy and other countries.»
Earlier, the Kremlin stated that there are no prerequisites for the transition of the situation in Ukraine to a peaceful course, the absolute priority for Russia is to achieve the goals of the special operation, at the moment this is possible only by military means. They added that the Russian Federation highly appreciates the efforts of all countries that are trying to bring the solution to the conflict in Ukraine in a peaceful direction, but so far this is impossible. As stated in the Kremlin, the situation in Ukraine can move into a peaceful direction, provided that the de facto situation and new realities are taken into account, all Moscow's demands are well known.