Ukraine: 'do everything' not to send more arms - Salvini

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 26 - League leader Matteo Salvini reiterated his opposition to Italy sending more weapons to Ukraine during an an ANSA Forum on Thursday.
    "The most powerful weapon will be diplomacy, not missiles or warheads," Salvini said when asked about the policy of giving military aid to Kyiv following the Russian invasion.
    "We are sending aid to save lives and defending the national interest involves doing everything to avoid sending more weapons.
    "I'm counting on no more talk of sending weapons but of sending diplomats.
    "I hope there is no (new) vote on sending weapons.
    "If there is, the League will reiterate that the most powerful weapon is diplomacy.
    "I believe that thinking in this way is also in (premier Mario) Draghi's interest.
    "I don't want to be too optimistic but it seems to me that both sides want to reason things out.
    "The search for dialogue is also making way within the leadership of the USA".
    Salvini also talked about domestic politics and said his party would never again be part of a coalition that sees it allied with parties on the left of the political spectrum, like the current one supporting the Draghi executive.
    " A government with the left is unrepeatable," he said.
    "The PD (Democratic Party) and their leader (Enrico) Letta are insisting on the Zan bill (against homophobia) and ius soli legislation (giving Italian citizenship to the children of migrants who are born in Italy) while the 5-Star Movement (M5S) says no to a waster-to-energy plant (in Rome).
    "We are on different levels". (ANSA).