Gentiloni: Pakistan offers opportunities for Italian businesses

Opening the ‘Pakistan Trade and Investment Forum’ at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni said that with its 200 million inhabitants, its 4.5-6% rate of growth and the progress made in terms of security and stability, Pakistan represents a “significant opportunity for Italian companies”. Italy, the minister pointed out, […]

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Khartoum – One week of ‘Calcio’ and Italian language for Sudanese children

Italy will be the focus of a week combining sport and culture, organised by the Italian Embassy in Sudan that kicked off last April 2. Italian coaches and professional teachers are in the African Country for a football training camp also offering the basics of the Italian language, open to hundreds of Sudanese youth, especially […]

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Los Angeles – Focus on a development project exhibition by the Foreign Ministry

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has organised, in partnership with the Agenzia Contrasto, a photographic exhibition called “4 Development Projects”, which will open today at the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Los Angeles and which is scheduled to run through the summer. “The show – reads a presentation note by the […]

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Norway – Oslo commemorates the Norge Polar Expedition

The Italian Embassy in Oslo and the Bekkelagshøgdas Lokalhistorisk Forening Association are commemorating the first flight across the Arctic, carried out by what is historically known as the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition. A ceremony on April 14 will celebrate that same date in 1926 when Rome’s Ciampino airport greeted the airship Norge, designed and piloted by Umberto […]

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Santiago – Leonardo’s Codex Urbinus to open “Encounters 1” project

“Encounters 1”, the annual exhibition project of the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Santiago, Chile, is due to open with the show “Urbinus Codex” by sculptor Franco Lillo on April 5. “Encounters 1”, an initiative sponsored by the Consejo de la Cultura y de las Artes (National Council for Culture and Arts), aims at […]

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Day of Action Against Landmines

The Italian Ministry of Education celebrated the Day of Action Against Landmines today with a conference entitled “E’ tempo di disinnescare il pianeta” – “It’s time to defuse the planet” – patronaged by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.The Conference, organised by the Italian National Association of Civilian Victims of War (ANVCG), was attended […]

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Under-Secretary Amendola visits Baghdad

During his visit to Baghdad today, Italy’s Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Vincenzo Amendola met Iraqi President Fuad Masum and Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Later in the day he is expected to meet with Parliamentary Speaker Salim al Jubouri. During the talks Under-Secretary Amendola reiterated Italy’s commitment to supporting security and development in Iraq. Mr […]

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Nagorno Karabakh: Foreign Ministry expresses concern over continuing clashes along the Line of Contact

Nagorno Karabakh: Foreign Ministry expresses concern over continuing clashes along the Line of Contact The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expresses deep concern over continuing clashes along the Line of Contact in the Nagorno Karabakh area of conflict, as well as for the victims caused by the fighting. The Italian Foreign Ministry urges […]

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Pakistan Trade and Investment Forum – Foreign Ministry to host the Forum on Trade and Investment Opportunities in Pakistan

On Tuesday, 5 April, the Italian Foreign Ministry will host the Forum on Trade and Investment Opportunities in Pakistan. The event will be opened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, and by the Chairman of the Board of Investment of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Miftah Ismail. The Forum is organised […]

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UNESCO – Minister Gentiloni meets Franco Bernabè at the Farnesina​

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, met with the President of the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, Franco Bernabè, in Rome this morning. Italy, which hosts a relevant part of the World Cultural Heritage sites, plays an important role in UNESCO. It is the Country with the largest number of sites […]

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Dunhuang – Matera to unite with China through a twinning inspired to history and culture

Matera, the City of the “Sassi” (stone houses carved out of the caves), has twinned up with Dunhuang, the city whose name means “shining beacon”, one of the most famous cultural and historical cities of China’s Jiuquan Prefecture, known as the “Singing-Sand Mountain”. Matera will take part in the Expo of cultural cooperation scheduled to […]

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Argentina – “Literature in Italian opera” series of talks to open in Buenos Aires

The Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) of Buenos Aires has organised a series of meetings on “Literature in Italian Opera”. The series will take people on a guided tour of musical fragments to explore the fruitful and close relationship between literature and opera. Melodrama emerged in Florence in the late 16th century and has always […]

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