Seek a just peace for Ukraine says Mattarella (3)

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 1 - A just peace must be sought for Ukraine, President Sergio Mattarella said Thursday.
    "We are today witnessing with interest and attention attempts to identify paths of dialogue to achieve peace. The principles of solidarity and justice that must unite peoples require the search for a just peace and not a peace achieved at the expense of the aggrieved," he said at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome, speaking to ambassadors accredited in Italy.
    "It is in this spirit that Italy, within the framework of its convinced membership of the European Union and the Atlantic Alliance, will continue to ensure its support for the Ukrainian people and their right to independence.
    "The conflict in Ukraine, the growing tensions we have recently witnessed in the Balkans, impose courageous choices, capable of consolidating and ensuring the enlargement of the community project, to make it fit to face the challenges of the present time. Italy will continue to work so that the European Union can increasingly be an actor capable of projecting peace, stability and development at global level'. (ANSA).