The barbina figure in Di Maio’s plan for peace in Ukraine
Facts, reactions, comments and background on Italy's (phantom?) Plan for peace in Ukraine. The Scratches of Damato
There is an Italian ghost that roams the international chancelleries, even in the glass building of the United Nations, in New York. It is a peace plan: however, not that of the seaside resorts, on which even the survival of Mario Draghi's government seemed to depend for a while, refusing to extrapolate from the draft law on competition the tenders claimed by the European Union for concessions of the beaches, and opposed in particular by the center-right. Where even seven hundred thousand jobs are in danger, threatened by multinationals and the like that could take over from the current dealers.
Much less modestly, an Italian plan for peace in Ukraine is wandering around the international chancelleries, which, however, even before Italy itself bears the name of the Grillino Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, also because the Prime Minister has never talked about it until now. to share the paternity, while writing about it widely a little everywhere. For example, the former Russian president, now deputy of something else, Dmitry Medvedev, has just talked about it, to dismiss it as the worst possible, finding it "prepared not by diplomats, but local political scientists who have read provincial newspapers and who operate only on the basis of false news spread by the Ukrainians ”.
"Di Maio-Medvedev, clash on the Italian peace plan", the headline of the Republic with an incompleteness that frankly does wrong with the choice of the Foreign Minister to entrust it with the exclusive rights of the document last week, albeit "in an embryonic state ”That the author wished to clarify in the face of liquidation criticism – I repeat – of the former Russian president.
I think, in favor of Di Mao, that more important than the rejection of the former president is the prudence, at least, of the spokesman of the Russian president in office – Dmitry, also Peskov – who has kept Putin out of the dispute for now because the Italian document has not yet been read in the Kremlin. Or not yet by the president himself. That perhaps, who knows, something of Di Maio's "embryonic" proposals might find some interest, such as the neutrality to be imposed on Ukraine and a conference for security and European borders similar to the one held in 1975 in Helsinki, well before the fall of the Berlin wall and communism in the autumn of 1989 and everything that followed, including the ongoing war.
Of course, Draghi's silence so far on his Foreign Minister's document is not ordinary, let's put it this way. Nor was it deserved by Di Maio, who flanked the Prime Minister in the strongly Atlanticist line and also military aid to Ukraine, which was instead challenged by the head of the 5 Star Movement Giuseppe Conte. But even less ordinary, or more surprising, as you prefer, is the indifference of the Count himself for Di Maio's plan. Which he could or should have almost appropriated, as you prefer, if only to try to embarrass the silent Draghi, who succeeded him at Palazzo Chigi more than a year ago. Instead, nothing.
Conte has also turned his head the other way to Di Maio and his plan. Indeed, the most nostalgic newspaper of the same Conte in Palazzo Chigi, Il Fatto Quotidiano , was quick to detect, or reveal, a substantial failure. Listen to what or how they wrote about it in the Travaglio newspaper: “Who knows how the Italian press would have reacted when, compactly, it considered the Foreign Minister an incompetent and an impostor, to the outcome of his peace plan. Today that Luigi Di Maio is the desirable face of the 5 stars, the criticisms are swept under the carpet, even if the plan, launched as the novelty of the week by Repubblica on May 19th, seems to have been closed ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-figura-barbina-del-piano-di-maio-per-la-pace-in-ucraina/ on Wed, 25 May 2022 06:10:01 +0000.