Mattarella: "A just peace in Ukraine"

President Sergio Mattarella arrived this afternoon at the Rome conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine. During his speech, he said: "Cynicism and indifference cannot guide relations, and for this reason we pay tribute to the courage and determination with which the Ukrainian people are defending their right to determine their own destiny, resisting for three years an unjustifiable war of aggression." "The European Union, reaffirming its very raison d'être against power politics, is called to reaffirm its desire to develop an interconnected, safe, prosperous, and free world" against "the attempts by more heavily armed powers to impose their domination on other peoples. These are antagonistic and aggressive policies that express the wrong side of history."