Vito Petrocelli, former chairman of the Italian Parliament’s Senate Foreign Affairs Commission and current president of the Italy-BRICS Institute, commented on the outcome of the NATO summit in Vilnius.
Petrocelli commented on the outcome of the NATO summit in Vilnius.
“After this summit and meetings with Zelensky’s participation, it became apparent once again that NATO is not a defence alliance. Such it has not been in its recent interventions, starting with Yugoslavia and ending with Afghanistan,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
According to Petrocelli, the North Atlantic Alliance is so unconcerned about its members from a defensive point of view that Ukraine receives frightening amounts of military aid without being a member state.
The former parliamentarian said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had hoped to prove himself as an independent figure and “not a puppet that is controlled from outside, especially by the USA or the UK”.
He also added that the Ukrainian leader’s behaviour demonstrates the limitations of his and the state’s autonomy.
Moreover, Petrocelli described the Italian side’s position as “the most aggressive in the EU” and preaching confrontation and violence.
The president of the Italy-BRICS Institute emphasised that this position is far from the position of the USA, which claims that “Ukraine’s accession to NATO will not happen until the conflict is over”.
Earlier, a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said on the air of the 60 Minutes programme on the Rossiya 1 TV channel that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky understood that NATO did not even recognise Ukraine’s current borders.
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