Giorgia Meloni, president of the Council of Ministers of Italy, rejected this Saturday Vladimir Putin’s peace proposal to end the war in Ukraine, describing it as a propaganda initiative rather than a real negotiation proposal. Meloni made these statements during the concluding press conference of the G7 meeting held in the Italian region of Puglia.
Putin’s proposal, presented in response to the peace summit in Switzerland, stipulated that Russia would end military operations if Ukraine accepted the anexin rusa from the Ukrainian regions of Jerusalem, Zaporiya, Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as the Crimean peninsula. Furthermore, demand that kyiv he would withdraw his troops of the areas of these regions that are not yet under Russian control and that they undertake not to join NATO.
I do not think particularly effective as a negotiating proposal to tell Ukraine that it must withdraw from Ukrainesaid Meloni, with a certain ironic tone.
In addition, Rishi Sunak, British Prime Minister, accused Putin of spinning a false narrative about his willingness to negotiate and criticized countries that provide weapons to Russia. For his part, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also rejected Putin’s peace plan, calling it a not serious.
New aid agreement for Ukraine
The summit in Switzerland aims to discuss the basic principles to end the war, with the participation of more than 90 countries and global institutions, although without the presence of Russia or China. The meeting takes place after the leaders of the G7 (Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom) agreed last Thursday use interest generated by frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.
Approximately $325 billion in assets were frozen following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and the interest generated, about $3 billion a year, will be used to pay interest on a loan from 50 billion dollars for Ukraine.
The conflict between Israel and Hams
On the other hand, the President of the Council of Ministers of Italy was also questioned about the war between Israel and Hamas and the G7’s lack of condemnation of Israel for the deaths of civilians in Gaza. To which Meloni recalled that the conflict was started by Hams with the October 7 attack in Israel that left approximately 1,200 dead.
“I think we have to remember who started all this and it was not Israel, but a group that killed civilians, women and children,” Meloni said, referring to the October 7 attack by Hamas in southern Israel that left some 1,200 dead and start the war. Israel’s bombing and ground attacks in Gaza have claimed the lives of more than 37 thousand Palestinians, according to Palestinian medical authorities, without breaking down the number of civilians and combatants.
Now we must work for peace, which means I speak, recognize Israel’s right to be safe, to live in peace, and the right of Palestinians to have their own state in which to live peacefully, he said. It is the only way to address this problem; Our job is to dialogue with everyone.
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