A global ceasefire during the February 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina will be sought by Italian hosts.
Released on October 7, 2025
Italy will submit a global ceasefire proposal to the UN ahead of next year’s Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.
As a concept, the global ceasefire during the Olympics appears in the ancient Greek games. There, the fighting factions agreed to lower their arms during the event so that athletes could travel safely with the ancient Olympia.
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Since 1896, including the 2024 Parisiolim Games, the Olympic organizers and the United Nations for a global ceasefire have not been listening. The Milan Cortina Games will be open on February 6th and will run until February 22nd.
“In light of the Milan Cortina Olympics, we are presenting the United Nations with proposals to suspend the Olympics for all wars, including Ukraine and the Middle East,” Tajani said Tuesday.
“We must be defenders of peace,” he said on the sidelines of an international conference in Rome. “We support the US plan (to end the war in Gaza) and, as Pope Leo said, we must never give up in hopes of peace.”
The 20-point plan presented by President Donald Trump, which Israel and Hamas began indirect talks on Monday, is considered the most promising initiative to end the war that has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians since October 7, 2023.
Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the war with Gaza.
In response to the devastation and humanitarian disasters of Gaza brought about by Israel’s military campaign, many major Western countries, not Italy, are officially aware of the Palestinian state and support the long-standing Palestinian desire for an independent homeland of Israeli settlements.
In Ukraine, the Western government has fought Russian invasion for more than three and a half years in Europe’s largest armed conflict since World War II and Europe’s largest armed conflict, which killed hundreds of thousands.
