The security agreement that Italy and Ukraine will soon sign will not be legally binding or contain military-political guarantees, said Italian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani.

“Our agreement, like those signed by Germany, Great Britain and France, will not be legally binding.

No international legal or financial obligations arise from the text.

There are no automatic guarantees of political or military support,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

Speaking in the Italian parliament at a joint meeting of the foreign affairs commission of both its chambers, Tajani clarified that this document will not require a ratification procedure, but Rome “intends to ensure the full participation of parliament.”

The politician said that this agreement confirms support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, its path to European integration, and also contains a condemnation of “Russian aggression.”

Earlier, Italian media reported that Rome and Kyiv were completing discussions on a security treaty, which Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni could announce on February 24 at the G7 leaders' summit.

"Once again they deceived"

Let us recall that the Kiev regime has been trying to obtain security guarantees from Western countries for almost two years.

In September 2022, Zelensky’s office published a draft of the so-called Kyiv Security Treaty, which was drawn up with the participation of former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

It contained a set of requirements for countries that are guarantors for ensuring the security of Ukraine, but it was emphasized that such guarantees should not replace Kyiv’s membership in NATO and the EU.

It is worth noting that since the presentation of this treaty, there has been no further significant discussion of the document at the international level.

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However, in July 2023, the G7 countries (Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, France, Japan and the USA) on the sidelines of the summit in Vilnius adopted a declaration on the general principles of long-term security guarantees for Ukraine.

“Each of us will work with Ukraine on specific bilateral, long-term security commitments and agreements,” the declaration says.

It notes that in the event of a potential future armed attack on Ukraine, the G7 countries will hold consultations with Kiev, and will also provide it with security assistance in the form of arms supplies.

Since the beginning of 2024, security agreements in accordance with this declaration have been signed by Germany, Great Britain and France with Ukraine.

On February 22, Denmark, which is not a member of the G7, concluded a similar agreement with the Ukrainian side.

All documents are valid for ten years.

In addition, Kyiv is actively working to sign a security agreement with the United States, and before the July NATO summit, which will be held in Washington.

This was announced on February 18 by Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishina.

Russia previously noted that these agreements essentially fix the current level of relations between Ukraine and Western countries, without actually providing any additional guarantees.

In particular, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, spoke about this when commenting on the signing of such an agreement between Ukraine and Britain.

“The Ukrainians were cleverly handed a beautifully wrapped set of promises of mainly advisory and advisory assistance, surrounded by beautiful assurances of support for Ukraine that were not legally binding,” Zakharova noted.

She emphasized that such a step is aimed at preventing members of the G7 and NATO from losing interest in what is happening in Ukraine, which the West continues to view as a geopolitical instrument aimed against Russia.

In addition, Kyiv is left with no chance to exit the conflict through negotiations, keeping it on the current Euro-Atlantic and anti-Russian confrontational course, Zakharova added.

“It’s surprising that in these times of supposedly universal digital literacy and the ability to get any information in a couple of minutes, the citizens of Ukraine have once again been deceived.

They promised a lot, received commitments from Kyiv and left,” the diplomat emphasized.

She added that security guarantees, even imaginary ones, “will have to be paid for.”

“Everything that is now given to the Kyiv regime is on credit.

Under obligations to compensate, return, and so on.

This has always been the case,” stated Zakharova.

"Declaration of Friendship"

Ukraine and European countries call these documents “agreements,” but these are declarations that do not oblige Western states to anything, Nikolai Mezhevich, chief researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, noted in a commentary to RT.

“This agreement is a kind of declarative text, the meaning of which boils down to the formula: “Guys, let’s live together.”

It is not a contract.

Why then is this needed?

In international diplomacy, there is a system for positioning certain priorities, within the framework of which documents are signed that set the general tone in relations, but are not binding to anything.

Zelensky wanted to sign a security agreement with guarantees with the G7 countries, but it turned out to be a declaration of friendship, nothing more,” the political scientist explained.

At the same time, Ukrainians have little understanding of the essence of these agreements, which the Zelensky administration is so actively promoting, Mezhevich believes.

“I’m sure that if you took a poll on the streets of Kyiv, nine out of ten people would say that this is a brilliant agreement that guarantees that Italy will soon send troops to Ukraine, just like Britain, Germany and France,” says the analyst.

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The documents that the Kiev regime signs with Western countries do not promise anything new to Ukraine, but only record the current situation, says Vladimir Bruter, an expert at the International Institute for Humanitarian-Political Studies.

“By signing all these agreements, the West, on the one hand, demonstrates that it is supposedly still deeply involved in the situation, and on the other, that it actually does not bear any responsibility.

All these documents have no legal consequences,” the expert emphasized in a conversation with RT.

In his opinion, when the Kiev regime asked the West for security guarantees in 2022, this obviously meant a completely different level of agreements.

“However, Kyiv plays by someone else’s rules, so these documents record what it will have to be content with.

Ukraine today is non-subject.

Therefore, no one cares about the expectations or disappointment of the Kyiv regime from what these documents actually provide,” Bruter concluded.