The meeting at the White House "went very well, Biden thanked Italy as a strong partner, reliable ally and credible interlocutor and I thanked him for his leadership role in this crisis and the great collaboration that has taken place. with all allies ".
Mario Draghi said this at a press conference in Washington at the Italian embassy after the meeting with the president of the United States at the Oval Office of the White House.
Now "we must begin to ask ourselves how to build peace, a peace that is not imposed but what Ukraine wants", added the prime minister.
“We agreed that we need to continue to support Ukraine and put pressure on Moscow but also to start asking ourselves how peace is built. The negotiation process is very difficult but the first point is how to build this negotiation path ”, the words of Draghi. "All parties must make an effort to get to sit around a table, even the US".
A sign of peace for Draghi could be the release of the ports : “We shared the need with Biden , but the collaboration of all parties is needed. Insisting that this peace table be created means that contacts must be restarted at all levels, we must be able not to forget, because this is impossible, but to look to the future ”.
A war that for the tenant of Palazzo Chigi "has changed its appearance". "Initially - he said - it was thought there was a Goliath and a David, essentially a desperate defense that also seemed to fail, today the landscape has completely turned upside down, certainly there is no longer a Goliath, certainly what seemed an invincible power in the field and with conventional weapons it has proved not invincible ".
The prime minister also spoke of energy: “I reminded Biden of the issue of the possibility of putting a ceiling on the price of gas , even if the US administration is reflecting more on a ceiling on the price of oil. We will talk about it again soon together. We also need much stronger investments in renewables ”.
Finally, on gas in rubles : “The largest importer, Germany, has already paid in rubles and most of the gas importers have already opened accounts in rubles . I am confident that the payments will continue but, perhaps for a stupid reason, there is no official declaration that the payments violate the sanctions, so it is a gray area ”.
(Unioneonline / L)