"We find ourselves in the serious and unprecedented situation of a powerful country that violently invades an independent country to impose its choices on it: this creates alarm and growing concern all over the world. Without ignoring the many other crises in the Middle East and Africa. The aggression of Ukraine is frightening because it risks starting a drift of conflicts that can extend with further dangers. It is absolutely necessary to prevent this way of acting from becoming a method: the rules of international coexistence would be upset ".
President Sergio Mattarella said this at the ceremony of the Lateran pacts.
The US national security adviser
Jake Sullivan,
after a meeting with the diplomatic adviser of Palazzo Chigi
Luigi Mattiolo
this morning also had a brief interview with the Prime Minister
Mario Draghi
.
The meeting between Sullivan and Mattiolo lasted just under an hour.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi had a meeting today with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the developments and implications of the war in Ukraine.
Draghi and Sullivan, according to Palazzo Chigi, shared "the firm condemnation of the unjustified aggression by Russia and the need to continue to pursue a decisive and unified response to Moscow".
Draghi and Sullivan, during today's meeting at Palazzo Chigi, agreed on the importance of "further intensifying contacts between Italy and the United States at all levels, in light of the excellent bilateral relations and the transatlantic link," he reports Palazzo Chigi.
American National Security Advisor Jack Sullivan met with Prime Minister Mario Draghi and diplomatic adviser Luigi Mattiolo to discuss "measures to impose costs on Russia for its war in Ukraine and humanitarian assistance to those fleeing the conflict".
This was stated by the White House referring to their meeting in Rome.
