ANGOLA: 100 students awarded diplomas in italian

Italian language courses are increasing in Angola, as witnessed during a ceremony for the awarding of diplomas to 100 students at the end of their one year course of study. The courses are the fruit of collaboration between our Embassy in Luanda and the Angolan capital’s Catholic University. The diplomas were handed out by Ambassador […]

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Statement by Minister Terzi on the discovery of a mass grave in Daraya

“The news of the discovery of a mass grave in Daraya horrifies and profoundly disturbs, as does all violence. It is further and tragic proof that the situation in Syria is no longer sustainable”. This was Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi’s statement, according to whom, “there will have to be an independent inquest to […]

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MAPUTO – Guebuza visita Padiglione Italia (in translation)

Grande attenzione in Mozambico per l’Italia del business. Nel giorno dell’inaugurazione della Fiera internazionale di Maputo, il Presidente Armando Emilio Guebuza ha visitato la sezione allestita dall’Ambasciata italiana e dall’Ice. Il Capo dello Stato mozambicano ha incontrato gli imprenditori, accompagnato dal Capo missione, Roberto Vellano, e dal Direttore dell’Ice di Johannesburg, Sergio La Verghetta. Oltre […]

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PANAMA: Solar panel plant donated by Italy

A ceremony was held for the start of construction on the first solar panel plant in Panama entirely integrated into the national electrical grid donated by Enel Green Power. In the presence of Head of State Ricardo Martinelli, and a large number of representatives of the Panamanian government. The facility will be completed in December […]

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DURAZZO: Italy represented by ‘Scialla’

“Scialla”, Francesco Bruni’s film of last year, which won him the Venice Film Festival Young David award for best director, will represent Italy in Albania at the 5th edition of the Durazzo International Film Festival opening on Sunday. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the page.

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WASHINGTON: tribute to Antonioni on his 100th birthday

The City of Washington will pay tribute to the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni with a broad retrospective of his best known works beginning on 29 September – what would have been his 100th birthday – to be held at the National Gallery of Art, the American Film Institute and the Italian Cultural Institute To read […]

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Dettaglio intervista

«Il Libano è molto esposto ai venti di guerra e di tensione che scuotono la vicina Siria. Occorre fare di tutto perché si ponga fine alle sofferenze del popolo siriano prima che il conflitto si regionalizzi e investa pesantemente il Paese dei Cedri». A lanciare l’allarme è Staffan De Mistura, vice ministro degli Esteri italiano, […]

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Intervento del Ministro Terzi al Meeting di Rimini 2012 “Politica internazionale e libertà religiosa”

(Fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato)   Presidente Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Sua Eminenza Cardinale Jean Louis Tauran, Segretario di Stato Antonella Mularoni, Direttore Roberto Fontolan, Carissimi ospiti, Ringrazio di cuore la “Fondazione Meeting per l’amicizia fra i popoli” per questa opportunità di confronto su tematiche di attualità. Gli ultimi mesi di governo hanno coinciso […]

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BRASILIA: “Green Embassy” project sets the pace

The “Green Embassy” Project has set the pace in Brasilia and opened new prospects for Italian firms. Thanks to the pilot project launched by the diplomatic mission in Brasilia, the national electrical power agency is ready to issue a new directive, allowing all users, both public and private, to follow its example and utilize alternative […]

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Press release detail

“After 20 years of suffering Somalia has finally turned the page”, asserted Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi as he expressed his “deep satisfaction” with the seating of the new Somali parliament in Mogadishu, underscoring that, with its approval of a new constitution a few weeks ago, Somalia had taken “a further, significant step toward […]

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CAIRO: Italy sends food aid to Egypt

Italy mobilises on behalf of the Egyptian people: Italian ambassador in Cairo, Claudio Pacifico, will deliver the second instalment of food aid earmarked for approximately 600,000 inhabitants of the Beni Suef governorate tomorrow to Egyptian Domestic Commerce Minister Abo Zied Mohamed Abo Zied. Thanks to an Italian contribution of 2.6 million US$, 1,100 tonnes of […]

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NEW YORK: competition for young directors

Who among young Italian film directors has not dreamt of flying to the Big Apple to show their works to the community of American film critics and scholars? That very possibility is being provided, for the second consecutive year, by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, through the “Young Italian Directors” Prize, subdivided into […]

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