The Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi on Wednesday will visit Kiev, then it will be sent to the capital of Russia.
Ukraine Renzi will have a meeting with the President of Petro Poroshenko, and March 5, the Italian Prime Minister will arrive in the Russian capital, where he planned dialogues with Russian President Vladimir Putin And Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. As told in the press service of the Italian Prime Minister, the focus will be on the foreign policy issues - the settlement of the fall in Ukraine, the situation in the middle East, in Libya, as well as the fight against crime, reports a news Agency. Route Renzi repeats that which passed in July 2014 Federica Mogherini - then-foreign Minister of Italy, and now the Supreme Commissioner of the EU for foreign Affairs And security policy. In the same sequence two capitals visited Chancellor Angela Merkel And the head of the French Republic Francois Hollande in early February before the meeting at which the contract was made about stopping a fire in the South-East of Ukraine. Inside Italy, the authorities were sharply criticized for what was left on the side of the " European proposals to settle the Ukrainian fall. Renzi generally often found in the lack of interest in foreign policy, where the key problems of the country had practically lost his voice at an international level. As emphasized by local observers, the second year of the reign Renzi wants to raise the chart Italy in this issue And one of the objectives is to strengthen relations with Russia, which until now were at a high level due to his predecessors Silvio Berlusconi And Romano Prodi. Italy, though supported punish the EU for Russia belongs to the group of European countries with at least a flexible position on the issue of their possible cancellation. The foreign Ministry of the state, which at the end of October last year was headed by Paolo Gentiloni, emphasized many times that Rome has always insisted on maintaining dialogue with Moscow, whose role remains significant in solving international crises. Anyway, Rome need to forget what punishments were taken in the semester of the Italian presidency over the EU. For example, one of the issues that Renzi would raise in negotiations with the Russian leadership, local observers have called the situation in Libya. In Italy quite frightened about what is happening in this North African country, located just 300 km from the Apennines. And it's not only the flows of immigrants, who again began to arrive to the Italian coast, but in the threat of "Islamic countries" (IG), expanding the territory under its control in Libya, where two warring against the government And there are dozens of armed groups. Italy has long sought to attract the attention of the international brotherhood to the Libyan issue And in Russia hopes to acquire ally, yesterday most of the discussion in the UN security Council, where the voice of the Russian Federation has the ability to be decisive. Expect Renzi clear political signal to the rapprochement with the Russian Federation And local businessmen that are sufficiently damaged from sanctions policy And do not want to waste space on the promising Russian market. A number of political figures, and among them the leader of the Northern League Matteo Salvini And his colleagues, the governors of the leading economic regions of Lombardy And Veneto Roberto Maroni And Luca ZAIA emphasis on the abolition of the sanctions regime, which together with the economic decline in Russia, the Italian economy has lost not less than 5 billion euros. For Renzi it will be the first face-to-face with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. They met at the conference "twenty" in Australia, Renzi was 16-17 October last year the owner of the Forum " Asia-Europe (ASEM), the fields of which held Several meetings in the Ukrainian crisis with the participation of the President of the Russian Federation.


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