In a declaration by the G7 in The Hague, the Group of 7 leaders observed that Russia\u2019s support for the OSCE mission in Ukraine was \u201ca step in the right direction\u201d and that they would \u201csuspend our participation in the G-8 until Russia changes course and the environment comes back to where the G-8 is able to have a meaningful discussion\u201d, but that \u201cdiplomatic avenues to de-escalate the situation remain open\u201d and that \u201cRussia has a clear choice to make\u201d: \u201crespect Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity and sovereignty, begin discussions with the Government of Ukraine, and avail itself of offers of international mediation\u201d.<\/P>
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Mogherini, next G7 not the definitive end to the G8<\/STRONG><\/P> The decision to exclude Russia from the next G8 meeting \u201cis not the definitive end of the format, but until Moscow de-escalates in Ukraine it will be difficult to sit at the same table\u201d. This was Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini\u2019s statement from The Hague, who specified that \u201ca channel for dialogue with Russia remains open\u201d, underscoring that \u201cyesterday foreign minister Lavrov did not meet only with Kerry but also with his Ukraine counterpart\u201d.<\/P> Ukrain crisis does not influence Syrian weapons destruction<\/STRONG><\/P> Italy believes deeply in the process of Syrian chemical weapons destruction and for that reason has made available its port of Gioia Tauro, Mogherini asserted from The Hague after meeting with the OPCW director general. \u201cThe tensions over the Ukraine crisis do not seem to have conditioned the process\u201d of destroying the chemical weapons, she added, pointing out that Italy is \u201chighly committed to this project and deeply believes in it\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a declaration by the G7 in The Hague, the Group of 7 leaders observed that Russia\u2019s support for the OSCE mission in Ukraine was \u201ca step in the right direction\u201d and that they would \u201csuspend our participation in the G-8 until Russia changes course and the environment comes back to where the G-8 is […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,407,76],"class_list":["post-13691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-europa","tag-g7","tag-ministri-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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