DIREZIONE GENERALE PER GLI AFFARI POLITICI
E DI SICUREZZA
OEWG INFORMAL SESSION (18-19-22 febbraio 2021) –
Italy’s interventions
Ambassador Lauber,
Thank you and your team for your tremendous work. Thank you
also for convening us for this additional meeting and for the draft
zero report that you circulated as promised at the very beginning
of the year. We commend you for including all aspects which
have been mentioned by all delegations, it does justice to the
richness and length of our debates and helps to highlight the areas
on which more work will be needed, possibly for years to come.
Definitely, the zero draft it is the basis of our negotiations,
precisely because of past discussions.
We are happy about the new structure of the document and we
appreciate that this has been done to respond to the call from some
delegations, including ours - to reflect the different levels of
agreement on different issues. We share your judgment on that,
on the other hand, as it has already been highlighted by other
delegations, we hope that going forward this will facilitate the
process of bringing forward areas of consensus and focus more
on recommendations. The choice to structure the document
differently should help us in the end to ensure that the Group’s
recommendations can become more ambitious, that its text may
become leaner, but overall that it serves the purpose of