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'.
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