Italian Economic Diplomacy/Sole 24 Ore – African Union: tenders for Eastern Africa geothermal facility

On 21 October a workshop was held at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa to present the “Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility for Eastern Africa”to investors wishing to participate in the call for tenders. To register consult the following webpage:http://www.grmf-eastafrica.org/events/registration_informati onworkshop_2013. The Facility was launched in April 2012 thanks to funding from the German government, […]

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Tourism – Italy showcased at Minsk

What Italy offers tourists in all its various aspects, even those lesser known ones, was the objective of a workshop held in Minsk during the Tourism Fair held there from 23 to 26 October, where it was noted that visas issued to citizens of Belarus had risen by 23.4% compared with last year. Read more, […]

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Italy-Brazil – Cooperation in science, technology and innovation

Taking stock of fruitful collaboration under way and opening new chapters in bilateral interests that include science parks, start-ups, joint nanotechnology laboratories and Earth observation research formed the content of the first meeting of the Mastaldi scientific and technological cooperation commission that met on 24 October during the 5th edition of the Italy-Brazil Cooperation Council. […]

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Deputy Minister Dassù visits Budapest for CEI Ministerial

Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Dassù is in Budapest today for a meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Central European Initiative (CEI) organised by its Hungarian duty president at Gödöllő Castle. Deputy Minister Dassù will hold bilateral meetings in the margins with, among others, Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi and Albanian Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati, to […]

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Cooperazione – Via a Piano d’Azione sulla disabilità. Presentato alla Farnesina con Vice Ministro Pistelli (in translation)

E’ stato presentato questa mattina alla Farnesina il “Piano di Azione sulla disabilità della Cooperazione Italiana” nel corso di una conferenza stampa a cui hanno partecipato il Vice Ministro degli Affari Esteri, Lapo Pistelli, il Direttore Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, Giampaolo Cantini, e i rappresentanti della Rete Italiana Disabilità e Sviluppo (RIDS): Pietro […]

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Italy – China: economic potential and pledge for human rights

Relations between Italy and China are good, diversified and rest on a centuries-old friendship, but there is still potential to be tapped and for bilateral economic relations to meet expectations. This was the message that Minister Emma Bonino underscored at the end of a meeting this morning in Rome with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE Meeting of Italian OECD delegates (Foreign Ministry Rome, 4 November 2013)

At 9:30 on Monday 4 November a meeting will be held with the Italian OECD delegates, where speakers will include Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Amb. Michele Valensise and Director General for Global Affairs Luigi Marras and OECD Deputy Secretary General Piercarlo Padoan. Attending the meeting will be numerous representatives of Italian ministries and […]

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Minister Bonino meets with United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Executive Director Jan Mattsson

Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino met today in Rome with United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Executive Director Jan Mattsson, with whom she discussed Italy’s intention to pursue collaboration with UNOPS, taking the opportunity to request an update on programmes under way. Bonino also expressed her appreciation for the high quality and sustainability […]

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Diplomazia Economica/Sole 24 Ore – Czech Republic: Brno Engineering Fair

The 55th annual International Engineering Fair, MSV 2013, was held in Brno, where it attracted more than 1500 Czech, European and non-European producers. Turkey was this year’s guest of honour, with a pavilion that showcased power engineering, financial and industrial investment services. Italy returned this year with 66 firms, slightly fewer than 2012. Participants included […]

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Italy-China Governmental Committee – Joint Communiqué

1. On the invitation of Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic Emma Bonino, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Yi, made an official visit to Rome on 29 October 2013. 2. The two ministers reviewed principal bilateral questions and exchanged opinions on relations between the European Union […]

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Seoul – The best in Italian wines

Italian wine flowed freely in Seoul South Korea for the third edition of the Gambero Rosso Top Italian Wines Roadshow, where 63 Italian wine producers took part in ‘Simply Italian – Great Wines’, an itinerant event that had the patronage of the Italian Embassy of Seoul and will be making future stops at Osaka, Sydney, […]

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Oman – Verdi scores on display in Muscat

Celebrations for the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi continued with the opening of an exhibition in the capital of Oman of some of the great composer’s scores. The exhibition was organised with the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and will conclude on 13 November. Read more, in Italian.

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