​Italy-Yemen Relations: the MAECI-SIOI project for 11 Yemenite diplomats is about to start

Eleven Yemenite diplomats will be attending a Master Programme on Geopolitics and International Relations organised by SIOI in conjunction with the General Directorate for Political Affairs and Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The Programme will run from 7 to 20 May 2017. The inauguration ceremony was attended by: Franco Frattini, […]

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Minister Alfano on mission to Tripoli

“Italy reaffirms with determination its support to an inclusive dialogue and reconciliation process, which is the only possible way to stabilize and consolidate the Country and its institutions,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Internaitonal Cooperation during his mission to Tripoli on Saturday, 6 may. Accompanied by the Italian Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Perrone, […]

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Argentina – Radiation physics discussed in Buenos Aires

The fundamental aspects of radiation physics are the central theme of a two-day international physics forum in Buenos Aires that features prestigious physicists from around the world. They will discuss innovations in non-destructive techniques that use ionising radiation and charged and neutral particles to probe matter, as well as their applications in the fields of […]

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Malta – Art Camp 2017

Thanks to a collaboration between the Italian Embassy in Malta, the Italian Cultural Institute in Valletta and the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, Agnese Purgatorio, an Apulian artist whose work focuses on dialogue, borders and illegality, will be participating in the international Art Camp, organised in Gozo from 7 to 20 May 2017 by the […]

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Portugal – “In the darkness of human destiny”: Rubini gives voice to Pirandello

“In the darkness of human destiny: Pirandello and self-knowledge” is the title of the event being held that marks 150 years since the birth of the Nobel Prize winning author and which features the well-known actor and director Sergio Rubini. The event is planned for Thursday, 11 May, at 6:30 p.m., at the Italian Cultural […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Alfano and the United High Commissioner for Refugees

On Friday, 5 May, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, had a telephone conversation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, to take stock of the situation in Libya and of the UNHCR Plan for the Country.   After receiving an update on the UNHCR’s action and future […]

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Alfano: “The upcoming reopening to the public of the IsIAO Library is an important fruit of the cooperation between the Foreign Ministry and the MiBACT”

“I am very happy that within the context of the 9th edition of “Farnesina Porte Aperte” (“Farnesina Open Doors”), more than 6 years after the closing of the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO), the Institute’s prestigious library will reopen to the public on the premises of the National Central Library of Rome,” said […]

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Alfano: «Tripoli must pay its debts; NGO’s shed light on their accounting» (Il Messaggero)

“Regulating migration flows and stabilising Libya” was the aim of yesterday’s mission to Tripoli by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, who then returned to Italy to fly to Argentina. “The UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, will be able to register them directly in the camps,” said the […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy, 5 May: latest news from the world

The Italian company Inso has been adjudicated the contract to rebuild the hospital district in Skopje. The 72-million-euro project includes the construction over a period of four years of a new nine-story hospital facility over an area of 47,000 square metres, including a rooftop heliport for emergencies. The project is the Country’s most important public […]

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“Farnesina meets businesses” travels to Florence

“Following the events held in Turin, Udine, Padua and Treviso, I firmly  believe that meeting local enterprises is extremely useful in order to illustrate to each one of them the tools that Farnesina offers to promote their internationalisation. The Farnesina provides institutional assistance and on site information via its diplomatic network, but it also favours […]

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Statement by Minister Alfano on Venezuela

Minister Alfano: “We reiterate our serious concern and our condemnation of the growing violence, with which the popular protests currently taking place in Caracas and the rest of the country are being repressed. Expressing dissent is an inalienable right of citizens and must never be subject to intimidation or repression. We trust that the Venezuelan […]

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Farnesina: Alfano meets with the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, within the framework of periodic bilateral meetings, received at the Farnesina the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz. “Relations between Italy and Pakistan are witnessing a very positive trend, both politically and economically. This satisfactory trend is also […]

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