TASHKENT – Italian medical team to help young people with heart disease

The Italian NGO “Aiutare i bambini” has organised a visit to Uzbekistan by a medical-surgical team to work for a limited period at Tashkent Vakhidov Centre, a hospital specialising in children’s heart surgery. The initiative was organised as part of the “Cuore di Bimbi” programme in collaboration with the Ospedali Riuniti in Bergamo and Milan’s […]

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Syria. Humanitarian emergency: Italian field hospital with capacity to treat 100 patients a day is now on its way

The flight carrying the Italian field hospital that will provide medical assistance for over 25,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan left this morning from Orio al Serio (Bergamo) airport. “We are standing by the Syrian people. Not just by supporting the international community’s efforts to find a solution to the crisis but by providing aid and […]

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Dettaglio intervista

Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi on Friday said that Syria’s downing of a Turkish military jet on June 22 was an hostile act targeting Turkey’s national security. In an exclusive interview with the Anadolu Agency (AA), Minister Terzi said that he joined in the remarks of Ankara that Syria’s downing of a Turkish military jet […]

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Intervento del Ministro Terzi in occasione dell’International Contact Group on Somalia

(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato) Excellency Sharif Hassan, Speaker of the Parliament of Somalia, Excellency Mohamed Abdiweli, Prime Minister of Somalia, Amb. Augustine Mahiga, Head of the UN Office for Somalia, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you all for your presence here today. It is a privilege for Italy to host this […]

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Somalia – Contact Group (Farnesina) – The constitution must respect human rights and religious minorities, says Terzi

“Our goal is the application of the road map that gives the Somali people new and legitimate institutions”. These were the words of Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi as he opened the Contact Group on Somalia meeting at the Foreign Ministry here in Rome in the run-up to the conclusion of the transition on 20 August […]

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Press release detail

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has welcomed the release of the three officials and interpreter from the International Criminal Court held in Libya since 7 June 2012. “It is thanks also to the efforts and contacts of the Italian Government that we reached the necessary understanding to achieve this positive outcome”, underscored the head of Italian […]

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Dettaglio comunicato

Il Presidente della Repubblica, Giorgio Napolitano, ha ricevuto questa mattina al Quirinale il Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri, Mario Monti, con il Ministro per le Politiche Europee, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, il Vice Ministro dell’Economia e delle Finanze, Vittorio Grilli, il Sottosegretario di Stato agli Affari Esteri, Marta Dassù, intrattenendoli a colazione.Nel corso dell’incontro sono stati […]

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Dettaglio intervento

(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato) Sono molto lieta di aprire oggi, con un brevissimo intervento, la sessione della Vostra Conferenza dedicata all’esperienza del G-20. Ringrazio la Fondazione economia di Tor Vergata, il professor Paganetto in particolare, per avere costruito negli anni un foro economico così autorevole e interessante. Lasciatemi partire da un’osservazione generale. […]

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“Longitude”: Arab disenchantment

“L’analisi è fondata non già sugli ultimi avvenimenti, ma su una sorta di sindrome che è scattata nei Paesi arabi dopo le rivolte”: così il direttore di “Longitude” Pialuisa Bianco spiega il titolo di copertina della rivista “Arab disillusion” in edicola a partire dal 4 luglio prossimo. “C’è un’analisi retrospettiva che spiega come attraverso epoche […]

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Havana – “The Genius of Leonardo”: an exhibition of artifacts in wood

A permanent exhibition on “The Genius of Leonardo” was opened on 28 June 2012 at the Saint Francis of Assisi Monastery in Havana. The exhibition includes about 100 artifacts in wood, created from the studies conducted by Leonardo and faithfully reproduced by the “Anthropos” Foundation in Rome. Read more, in Italian.

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Arab Emirates: Italian exports rise by 17.6% in the first quarter of 2012

Italian exports to the United Arab Emirates are rising. The initial figures for trade between Italy and the UAE in the first quarter of 2012, now available on the Foreign Trade Institute’s website, confirm the upwards trend seen in 2011. That year, Italian exports to the Emirates amounted to 4,735 billion euros, up 28.5% on […]

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Syria: Agreement in Geneva on the transition government

On Saturday 30 June, the international mediator for Syria, Kofi Annan, obtained support from the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council for a political transition plan in Syria. The aim is to halt the violence and fighting in the country. Uncertainty remains as to the future of President Bashar al Assad. Transition […]

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