Capetown – Italian Ambassador’s trophy

Young South African sailing enthusiasts squared off in the first edition of the Italian Ambassador’s Trophy, held in the lake of the Simon’s Town naval base, near Capetown, South Africa. The regatta consisted of 8 young crews from the Izivunguvungu sailing school, which offers free courses for youngsters from 8 to 18 from the poorest […]

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Integrity Day – 7 December 2012

Asserting a culture of integrity to respond to civil society demands was the spirit with which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs celebrated Integrity Day today, ahead of the UN’s Anti-Corruption Day on 9 December. This year’s meeting is dedicated to the public administration’s new challenges following the entry into force of the anti-corruption law. The […]

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Syria: Terzi meets with Lebanese Premier – Political solution with support for Doha opposition

The international community must continue to promote a political solution to the crisis, based on Assad’s exit from the scenario and, to that end, support the Opposition Coalition set up on Doha. This was the Italian position reiterated today by foreign minister Giulio Terzi in a meeting in Rome with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati. […]

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Minister Terzi meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati

The day after the NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, Minister for Foreign Affairs met in Rome with Lebanese Prime Minister to discuss the Syrian crisis. Terzi reiterated the need for the international community to continue to promote a political solution to the crisis, based on Assad’s exit from the scenario and, to that end, […]

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Houston: success for conference of italian researchers

The 8th Conference of Italian Researchers in the World met in Houston to present their latest projects in the sectors of biomedicine, medicine, physics, engineering, aerospace, geology and humanities. The conference was organized by the Committee for Italians Abroad (COMITES) in collaboration with the Tricolour Committee for Italians in the World (CTIM) and the Consulate […]

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Italy-Japan: workshop on economic partnership with the EU

The workshop “Italy and European-Japanese relations: prospects and problems for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)” will be held on Friday 14 December at the Senate’s Palazzo Giustiniani in Rome. Participants will include Lamberto Dini (President of the Senate Foreign Relations Commission), Umberto Vattani (President of the Italy-Japan Foundation), Cesare Cursi (President of the Senate Industry, […]

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Moscow: the Da Vinci Code on the Flight of Birds

The Pushkin Museum inaugurated an exhibition on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Code on the Flight of Birds”, one of the most exemplary of documents attesting to Italian artistic and inventive virtuosity. As Italian Ambassador to the Russian Federation Antonio Zanardi Landi pointed out, the manuscript was the protagonist of an interesting story that binds Italy to […]

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Terzi: «Moderation from Israel to avoid a diplomatic intifada » (La Stampa)

Minister Terzi, yesterday afternoon Italy summoned the Israeli ambassador, as England, France, Spain and other countries had also done in recent days. Nevertheless Naor Gilon said that it was “only an invitation, we will assess it once we know what it’s about”. You were monitoring everything from the NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels, would you […]

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Convocazione Amb. Israele; Preoccupazione italiana per i nuovi insediamenti

La forte preoccupazione e la contrarietà dell’Italia per le conseguenze negative sul processo di pace delle decisioni del Governo israeliano in materia di insediamenti e di interruzione del pagamento degli introiti doganali all’Autorità Palestinese sono state espresse oggi, su indicazione del Ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi, dal Segretario Generale della Farnesina Michele Valensise all’Ambasciatore israeliano […]

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Syria: humanitarian crisis, Italian initiatives – Terzi: aid to children freezing in border camps

Italy renewed its pledge to support the consolidation of the Syrian opposition to the Assad regime, as well as to “seek to alleviate the serious humanitarian crisis” and gave its consent to the “concrete solidarity” initiative with Turkey involving the deployment of Patriot missiles for the “exclusive defence” of the southeastern borders of NATO. “We […]

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Syria: Monti, pledge to alleviate the humanitarian crisis – NATO: Terzi, concrete solidarity with Turkey

Italy renewed its pledge to support the consolidation of the Syrian opposition to the Assad regime, as well as to “seek to alleviate the serious humanitarian crisis” and gave its consent to the “concrete solidarity” initiative with Turkey involving the deployment of Patriot missiles for the “exclusive defence” of the southeastern borders of NATO. “We […]

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Completed legislative process for approval of law on adaptation to the International Criminal Court Statute

Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi was delighted with the news of the completion of the legislative process for approval of the law, by parliamentary initiative, on adaptation to the International Criminal Court Statute, toward whose rapid achievement he had been personally engaged. The adaptation into national law of the ability to implement the Court’s […]

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