(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 24 - "The Supreme Defense Council expresses the strongest condemnation for the unjustifiable military aggression launched by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, which represents a serious and unacceptable violation of law".
It can be read in a note from the Quirinale at the end of the CSD.
"In order for Europe not to suddenly fall into a vortex of war, it is necessary to act with strength and far-sightedness to restore the primacy of international law and the safeguarding of the principles and values that have guaranteed peace and stability to our continent", he explains.
"The Italian Republic - continues the note from the Quirinale - asks the Russian Federation for the immediate cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of forces outside the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine".
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