Returning to the G8 with Russia
is "an objective we are working on," Foreign Minister Angelino
Alfano said Thursday, voicing the hope that "moving past the
issue of sanctions the G8 format can be restored", but "the time
is not ripe in view of the Taormina summit at the end of May".
Alfano added that "only a stupid person can think that
relations between the US and Russi and the EU and Russia must
remain cool".
Italy is set to host the G7 summit in Taormina, Sicily, on
May 26-27.
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