At the press conference closing the G7 summit, Giorgia Meloni dismissed as “propaganda” the proposals of Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate peace with Ukraine: “It does not seem particularly effective to me, as negotiation proposal, to tell Ukraine that it must withdraw from Ukraine.
The head of the Italian government Giorgia Meloni on Saturday rejected as “propaganda” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposals to negotiate peace with Ukraine. “It does not seem particularly effective to me, as a negotiation proposal, to tell Ukraine that it must withdraw from Ukraine,” quipped Giorgia Meloni during the closing press conference of the G7 summit which is held in the south of the peninsula.
“It looks more like a propaganda initiative”
“It seems more like a propaganda initiative,” she added. Earlier in the day, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz estimated that the demands made by the Russian president amounted to “dictating” peace. Vladimir Putin de facto set Ukraine’s surrender on Friday as a condition for talks. He demanded that kyiv abandon its ambition to join NATO and withdraw its forces from the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, claimed by Russia.
These positions came as the first summit on peace in Ukraine, without Russia, began on Saturday in Switzerland. kyiv also raised this week the possibility of a second summit with the participation of a Russian delegation which would receive a “common plan” presented by the participants, according to comments from Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak.