Onward with Kyiv for force of law, just peace says Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 24 - Premier Giorgia Meloni told an exlusive interview with conservative daily Il Giornale Saturday that the Group of Seven, which Italy is leading this year and whose first summit this year she is hosting in Kyiv Saturday, would move forward at Ukraine's side "for the force of law and a just peace".
    From the Ukrainian capital today, she said, "a message will come that being on the side of Kyiv means preventing that the international rules-based system is definitively shattered".
    Meloni told Il Giornale that Russian President Vladimir Putin "can only be convinced to negotiate if the balance of the forces in the field is guaranteed".
    She said that Moscow was responsible for the death of jailed leading dissident Alexei Navalny.
    On the Middle East, Meloni told the formerly Berlusconi family newspaper that "a long ceasefire and freed hostages are needed to give a prospect to Gaza, relaunching the two peoples, two states' solution." (ANSA).