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    Press Releases
    14 October 2013
    OSCE: Bonino – Zannier Meeting

    Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino met today in Rome with Ambassador Lamberto Zannier, Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Their discussion centred on questions concerning the Vienna-based organisation’s authority, ahead of the ministerial meeting to be held in Kiev on 5-6 December. Ambassador Zannier also met at the […]

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    14 October 2013
    Giro in Peru, progress on partnerships

    The themes of the VI Italy-Latin America Conference to be held in Rome in December, and in which President of Peru Humala is to participate, and Peru’s participation in the 2015 Milan Expo, were the focus of Under-Secretary Mario Giro’s mission to Peru, where he was received by the Peruvian Congress on the morning of […]

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    14 October 2013
    Los Angeles – Marinelli foundry sculpture on display

    From 16 October to 9 November the Los Angeles Italian Cultural Institute will provide the setting for the bronze sculpture of Florence’s historic Marinelli foundry, in an exhibition entitled “Of bronze and fire. The art of the foundry – Tuscan works” and, at the same time, a selection of works will be on view in […]

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    14 October 2013
    Russian Federation – Russian tourists introduced to “Italy minor”

    With the goal of encouraging tourism in what could be called “Italy minor”, consisting of lesser known attractions than those of the classic tourist routes, the Mirabilia project was introduced at the Italian embassy today in Moscow: a network of nine cities that are home to Unesco sites –Brindisi, Genoa, L’Aquila, La Spezia, Matera, Perugia, […]

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    Interviews
    14 October 2013
    Giro: «La reputazione della lingua fa bene al Paese» (Il Sole 24 ore)

    Oggi inizia la settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo. Si tratta di un’occasione per riflettere sul valore della nostra lingua come accesso alla cultura italiana, creatrice di simpatia, di legami e di molteplici interessi verso il nostro Paese. Le 1.200 iniziative in più di 94 Paesi che compongono la settimana della lingua mettono in luce […]

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    Press Releases
    11 October 2013
    Farnesina hosts Conference “The Way Ahead”, third encounter between countries under Italian command Afghanistan

    The foreign ministry hosted the third political-military meeting of the ISAF partners present in Western Afghanistan and operating under Italian command, enlarged on this occasion to possible future contributors to the post-ISAF mission known as “Resolute Support”. The meeting’s purpose was to maintain a coordinated approach to the completion of the transition and to the […]

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    11 October 2013
    Italy–Mozambique – Jazz Festival to celebrate peace agreements

    Celebrating the peace agreements to the sounds of jazz, at an initiative organised by the Italian Embassy in Mozambique to mark the anniversary of the accord signed in Rome in 1992 that ended the civil war in the country. Now in its 9th year, the Italy-Mozambique Jazz Festival is an eagerly anticipated event in Maputo’s […]

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    11 October 2013
    Brasilia – “Renaissance Masters” on display

    The exhibition “Mestres do Renascimento” (Renaissance Masters) opens in Brasilia today, 11 October 2013, and will run until late January 2014. The show is the largest featuring the Renaissance ever to be held in Latin America. As Italian Ambassador Raffaele Trombetta commented, “the exhibition underscores the excellent state of Italian-Brazilian relations, where we are advancing […]

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    11 October 2013
    European Union – Dassù in Trieste: macro-region part of EU strategy

    “The macro-region is a precise European Union strategy. A strategy that perhaps has not been all that evident until now”. The point was made by Deputy Minister Marta Dassù, speaking at a conference on Macro-Regions organised by the Minister for Territorial Cohesion, Carlo Triglia, and the President of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Debora Serracchiani. “When […]

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    Accreditation Notices
    11 October 2013
    ANNOUNCEMENT FOR EDITORS-IN-CHIEF: World Food Day (Rome, 16 October 2013) – Accreditation

    On Wednesday 16 October 2013 an international conference on “Global food losses and waste: from reduction to prevention for a sustainable agro-food system” will take place at the FAO headquarters in Rome. The conference, a World Food Day initiative, will begin at 14.00. The conference, organised by the Foreign Ministry’s Directorate General for Development Cooperation, […]

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