“It seems to me that a step forward has been taken towards peace”, even if “there is still a lot to work”. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said this to Special Tg4, after the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. “The Italian government supports the action of President Trump, the work of the United States but at the same time they are ready to collaborate actively, together with the European countries, to the creation of a Trump summit with Zelensky and Putin”.
“Italy has always given its availability – added the minister – to welcome any summit that is for the construction of peace, both as regards the Middle East and for Ukraine”. “We are always the protagonists for the construction of peace, we will go on to welcome meetings, we are available, but we will continue with intense diplomatic work to work so that the end of the war has quick times,” he added.
“We will go on to support Kiev and – Tajani still remarked – to propose a sort of article 5 of NATO to ensure that Ukraine, even in the future, also has military protection from any attempt by the Russian Federation to start a war”. «It is important that the Italian proposal, that of Article 5 BIS model born for Ukraine, has become the subject on the agenda. Putin himself had to admit that Ukraine’s security must be out of the question. “