"Today we are witnessing with interest and attention attempts to identify paths of dialogue to achieve peace". President Sergio Mattarella said so speaking from the Quirinale.
«The principles of solidarity and justice that must unite peoples – added the Head of State – impose the search for a just peace and not a peace achieved against those who have been attacked. 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 republican Constitution - Mattarella underlined - is the daughter of the redemption from the tragic experiences of the dictatorship and the Second World War and indicates the repudiation of war as an instrument for settling disputes. This is a very topical and deeply felt principle, of which the unacceptable aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine represents the most brutal and evident negation".
(Unioneonline/lf)