(ANSA) – ROME, FEB 14 – President Sergio Mattarella is absolutely serene and invites to read the text of the speech pronounced in Marseille, Quirinale sources said Friday after a Russian foreign ministry spokesperson accused the head of State of “blasphemous inventions”.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Friday accused the Italian president of “blasphemous inventions” after he compared Russia to the Nazi Third Reich in relation to its invasion of Ukraine in a speech at the University of Marseilles last week, according to Tass.
Commenting on the Russian foreign ministry’s statements, Premier Giorgia Meloni said the attacks offended the whole nation.
“The insults of the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman who described as “blasphemous inventions” the words of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, offend the entire Italian nation, which the Head of State represents”, Meloni said in a note.
“I express my full solidarity, as well as that of the entire Government, to President Mattarella, who has always firmly supported the condemnation of the aggression perpetrated against Ukraine”, the prime minister said.
Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa expressed support for the president, writing on social media that the statements of the foreign ministry spokesperson were “inappropriate and out of place”, and that Mattarella is the “guardian of the values of the Republic and a point of reference for the nation”.
Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani expressed solidarity to Mattarella with a post on X over Moscow’s “offensive words”, voicing “full confidence in the work of the Head of State, recognized by all as an influential man of peace”.
The leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), the largest opposition member, Elly Schlein, also expressed solidarity and gratitude to the president saying “the democratic community fully identifies with the words and the action of the Head of State, the guardian of the Constitution and of democracy”.
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Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Friday accused the Italian president of “blasphemous inventions” after he compared Russia to the Nazi Third Reich in relation to its invasion of Ukraine in a speech at the University of Marseilles last week, according to Tass.
Commenting on the Russian foreign ministry’s statements, Premier Giorgia Meloni said the attacks offended the whole nation.
“The insults of the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman who described as “blasphemous inventions” the words of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, offend the entire Italian nation, which the Head of State represents”, Meloni said in a note.
“I express my full solidarity, as well as that of the entire Government, to President Mattarella, who has always firmly supported the condemnation of the aggression perpetrated against Ukraine”, the prime minister said.
Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa expressed support for the president, writing on social media that the statements of the foreign ministry spokesperson were “inappropriate and out of place”, and that Mattarella is the “guardian of the values of the Republic and a point of reference for the nation”.
Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani expressed solidarity to Mattarella with a post on X over Moscow’s “offensive words”, voicing “full confidence in the work of the Head of State, recognized by all as an influential man of peace”.
The leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), the largest opposition member, Elly Schlein, also expressed solidarity and gratitude to the president saying “the democratic community fully identifies with the words and the action of the Head of State, the guardian of the Constitution and of democracy”.
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