Amid a potential escalation of military conflicts, the G7 foreign ministers issued a communiqué after meeting on the Italian island of Capri on April 19. However, some argue that the leaders’ words do not match their actions, according to Il Blog di Beppe Grillo.
Italian media reported that a ferry travelling from Capri where the G7 foreign ministers were holding the meeting crashed into a pier in the port of Naples while docking. About fifty people were injured as a result. According to critics, the incident was an omen of the tragedy that was about to overwhelm humanity. After the three-day summit, the foreign ministers pledged to provide military and financial aid to Ukraine and to call on Israel for a ceasefire.
The political decisions on behalf of some 450 million Europeans, who will be casting their votes in less than 2 months in the European Parliament elections, consist of two major initiatives. The first is the unwillingness to recognise the Palestinian State, as evidenced by the latest US veto of a UN Security Council recommendation to recognise Palestine as a state rather than an Observer. The second is the allocation of resources from the community budget to fund the war in Ukraine.
Full admission of Palestine to the UN would be an important milestone on the road to achieving peace in the region, political experts believe. At the same time, Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres predicts the approach of a large-scale conflict triggered by the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
On the sidelines in Capri, there were no words of peace or human rights, but echoes of war, weapons, increased military spending. The meeting also included condemnation of the Iranian attack and some calls for moderation, with no mention of the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria.
European leaders are pushing for military aid to Kyiv, allegedly neglecting a possible increase in the number of casualties. Without condemnation and decisive action from world leaders, it is simply not possible to stop military conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East or any other part of the world.
