“Mr. Luigi Di Maio has been so active in the media space and is promoting the Italian four-point initiative.
We just read about it.
We read that this is an initiative that can bring the long-awaited peace,” Lavrov said.
According to him, it is also written in the media that allegedly this Italian initiative can “not only suit Russia and Ukraine, but also provide almost a new Helsinki process, new agreements on European security” and that allegedly it is already shared by the G7 countries and UN Secretary General.
“I don’t know if it’s true or not, to whom he showed it.
Nobody gave us anything.
We can only focus on those speculations, those descriptions of this initiative that appear in the media,” the Foreign Minister said.
He noted that what is written in the media, if this is true, "causes a feeling of regret about the understanding of the authors of this initiative, what is happening and about their knowledge of the subject, their knowledge of the history of this issue."
“Well, at least the fact that, as I understand from the description of your colleagues, it is about the fact that Crimea and Donbass should be part of Ukraine with broad autonomy granted to them.
Well, serious politicians who want to achieve results, and are not engaged in self-promotion in front of their electorate, cannot offer this kind of thing, ”Lavrov said.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Italy's proposals for a settlement in Ukraine were out of touch with reality.