(ANSA-AFP) - ROME, FEB 26 - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday that any peace deal in Ukraine must include "security guarantees", to be "implemented in the context of the Atlantic alliance", a reference to NATO. Peace in Ukraine "can only be achieved if Kyiv is given adequate security guarantees to make sure that what we have seen over the past three years does not happen again," she said in a statement to the press following a meeting in Rome with Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Such guarantees are necessary "to make sure that the European nations that feel most threatened can instead feel safe", she said. "These security guarantees must be implemented in the context of the Atlantic alliance because I think that this is the best framework to guarantee a peace that is neither fragile, nor temporary, and that precisely averts the risk that Europe could soon relapse into the drama of war". Meloni's comments come as Britain and France try to convince US President Donald Trump to provide security guarantees for Ukraine as part of any ceasefire agreement with Russia. (ANSA-AFP).