ROMA – Lamberto Zannier is the Italian diplomat who from 2011 to 2017 led the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the body that until a few days ago kept observers in Donbass and on the confrontation lines between Russia and Ukraine. His analysis and his appeal: “An international envoy must be appointed immediately, a political and diplomatic mediation mechanism must be restarted”
Ambassador, what does this Russian recognition of the Donbass mean politically?
“With this latest evolution, the space for dialogue that had been created with the Minsk negotiations closes, a negotiating platform that so far had not produced appreciable results but which was nevertheless important for the dialogue. Do not