Nigeria: Italian seamen are free and will soon be home, says Terzi

“Our three seamen are free and will soon be back in Italy”. The news that the families had been awaiting since Christmas Eve was announced early this morning by Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi. The nightmare is over for Emiliano Astarita, Salvatore Mastellone e Giuseppe D’Alessio (respectively, the captain, first officer and engineer of the Asso21, […]

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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR EDITORS-IN-CHIEF: New Libya Economic Forum (Foreign Ministry, Rome, 10 January 2013)

On Thursday 10 January 2013, Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi and the Head of State and President of the General National Congress of Libya, Mohammed Magariaf, will chair a meeting with Italian businesses and associations present or interested in operating in Libya. The meeting will take place at 16.30 at the Foreign Ministry in Rome. Participants […]

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Somalia: Terzi, Italia impegnata a sostegno sicurezza e stabilita’ del paese.

Il Ministro Terzi ha incontrato oggi alla Farnesina il Vice Primo Ministro e Ministro degli Affari Esteri somalo, Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adan, la prima donna a ricoprire tale incarico nella storia del Paese africano. Si è trattato del primo colloquio con un membro del Governo somalo dopo la storica missione del Capo della diplomazia italiana […]

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Italy-Holland: Terzi-Timmermans: common commitment to a stronger EU

Italy and Holland are “heavily committed to strengthening the European economic and monetary union”, to EU “institution building” and to common security, asserted Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi at the end of a meeting at the foreign ministry in Rome with his Dutch colleague Frans Timmermans. Regional accords, banking supervision and common European defence […]

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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR EDITORS-IN-CHIEF – Meeting Minister Terzi with Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans (Foreign Ministry Rome, 7 January 2013)

Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi is scheduled to meet with Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans at the foreign ministry in Rome at 10:00 on Monday 7 January 2013. A joint press point is to follow. Journalists and camera operators interested in covering the event are asked to apply for accreditation by completing the interactive […]

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Stati in cui non si esercita il voto per corrispondenza (in translation)

Stati nei quali non è stato possibile concludere intese per il voto per corrispondenza   STATO AMB. RIFERIMENTO 1 Botswana (Lusaka) 2 Brunei (Singapore) 3 Burkina Faso (Abidjan) 4 Comore (Dar es salaam) 5 Costa d’Avorio (Abidjan) 6 Cuba (L’Avana) 7 Dominica (Caracas) 8 Figi (Canberra) 9 Gabon (Libreville) 10 Guinea Equatoriale (Yaoundé) 11 Indonesia […]

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Stati nei quali si può votare per corrispondenza (in translation)

  Stati nei quali si può votare per corrispondenza   STATO AMB. RIFERIMENTO 1 Afghanistan (Kabul) 2 Albania (Tirana) 3 Algeria (Algeri) 4 Andorra (Madrid) 5 Angola (Luanda) 6 Antigua e Barbuda (Santo Domingo) 7 Arabia Saudita (Riad) 8 Argentina (Buenos Aires) 9 Armenia (Jerevan) 10 Australia (Canberra) 11 Austria (Vienna) 12 Azerbaijan (Baku) 13 […]

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Aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo

Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi gave instructions to the Italian Cooperation to increase attention to the dramatic humanitarian emergency involving the populations affected by civil war in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Cooperation today dispatched several tonnes of World Health Care supplies, along with five electrical units donated […]

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BUDAPEST – Anno cultura italiana, si inizia con Pergolesi il 6 gennaio (in translation)

Per inaugurare l’Anno della Cultura Italiana in Ungheria, l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura ha in programma domenica 6 gennaio un concerto con la partecipazione dell’Ensemble Carmina et Cantica – direzione artistica, Beatrice Bianco. “La morte di San Giuseppe” Il contralto Cristina Melis, i soprani Marcella Orsatti Talamanca e Camilla Corsi, il tenore Gianluca Zampieri, accompagnati dall’Orchestra […]

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VARSAVIA – Gala per Verdi a San Silvestro (in translation)

Una serie di brani tratti dalle piu’ famose opere di Verdi, con l’orchestra al gran completo, l’intero coro e alcuni cantanti lirici. La notte di San Silvestro il Gran Teatro Nazionale dell’Opera di Varsavia ha dedicato un evento di Gala al compositore con la collaborazione e sotto il patrocinio dell’Ambasciata d’Italia a Varsavia. Secondo il […]

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“Religious freedom – tolerance is no longer enough” (l’Eco di Bergamo – La Provincia)

This April will mark the 50th anniversary of the Pope John XXIII’s crowning encyclical “Pacem in terris”, the exalted words of which remain unaltered in their extraordinary moral vigour. Pope John’s intention was to advance truth, freedom, love and justice as the four pillars of peaceful co-existence. Unfortunately, we are forced to acknowledge today that […]

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Asia Bibi: hoping for a revoked sentence, says Terzi

Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi gave instructions to the Embassy in Islamabad to appeal to the Pakistani authorities on behalf of Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman held since 2009 and condemned to death on the charge of blasphemy, underscoring the Italian government’s firm expectations that the sentence would be revoked. According to sources […]

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