MADRID – The Prince of Asturie opens the Book Fair, Italy guest of honour

On 25 May the Prince of Asturia, accompanied by Princess Letizia, opened the 71st Madrid Book Fair, where Italy is this year’s guest of honour. Italian Ambassador Leonardo Visconti di Modrone welcomed the Prince at the Parque de “El Retiro” along with Spanish Minister of Culture Jose’ Ignacio Wert, President of the Book Fair Pilar […]

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LIMA – Photography Exhibit on Italian emigration to Peru

The photography exhibit entitled “Italia y Peru’. Hermanados por la migracion”, organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Lima and dedicated to Italian emigration to Peru and vice versa, comes to an end on 30 May at the Parliamentary the Peru-Italy Friendship League. The League’s president Carlos Tubino Arias Schreiber expressed his gratitude to Italian […]

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Mediterranean: We are with the OSCE in strengthening relations between the northern and southern shores, says Terzi

After the Arab revolts “we feel the need to strengthen relations between the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean, through authentic, lasting and equal relationships”. These were the words of Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, opening a conference at the Foreign Ministry in Rome on the role of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in […]

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Syria: UN condemns regime’s shelling of Houla – Terzi: the line’s been crossed: pressure to protect civilians

The international community condemned the Syrian regime for its shelling of Ohula, which took the lives of women and children, and Minister Giulio Terzi explained that Italy was ready to support tougher resolutions to address the humanitarian crisis. In a meeting during the night the UN Security Council adopted a declaration, complete with Moscow’s signature, […]

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Speech detail

(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato) Segretario Generale dell’OSCE, Onorevoli Migliori e Mecacci, Segretario Generale Aggiunto del Consiglio di Cooperazione del Golfo, Ambasciatori, Signore e Signori, sono lieto di aprire i lavori di questa conferenza, che risponde a un’idea che manifestai lo scorso dicembre a Vilnius, quando il Consiglio Ministeriale dell’OSCE decise di rafforzare […]

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Press release detail

In the wake of the horrifying massacre of unarmed civilians in the Syrian city of Houla, Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi has been in contact with European and regional partners most closely concerned with the Syrian crisis, with which he will be discussing the latest dramatic developments in the margins of the International conference […]

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Terzi: «A common response to the challenges» (Rossiyskaya Gazeta)

Ten years have passed since the signing of the Rome Declaration on NATO-Russian Relations at the air-base at Pratica di Mare, establishing the NATO-Russian Council, intended to launch a new era of cooperation between Moscow and the Atlantic Alliance. Less than a year earlier, the 9/11 attacks had generated solidarity against a deadly and elusive […]

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Terzi: «The line has been crossed. The people need protection» (La Stampa)

Italy is ready to support tougher a resolution regarding the humanitarian crisis in Syria. This, in brief, was Minister for Foreign Affairs’ Giulio Terzi ‘s comment in light of the massacre in Houla. Mr. Minister, once again the international community seems to be standing by powerlessly. «Allow me first to express the horror and pain […]

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Minister Terzi firmly condemns the massacre of civilians in Houla, Syria

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has firmly condemned the massacre of civilians by Syrian security forces in Houla. He has once again called for the immediate application of the peace plan envisaged by United Nations Security Council Resolution 2043. The first steps must be a total cessation of violence and free entry to Syria by humanitarian […]

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Soddisfazione del Ministro Terzi per lo svolgimento del primo turno delle elezioni presidenziali in Egitto

“E’ un passaggio storico per lo sviluppo della democrazia in Egitto”. Così il Ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi commenta il primo turno delle elezioni presidenziali egiziane svoltosi in maniera pacifica e nell’insieme regolare. “E’ particolarmente incoraggiante l’elevato livello di partecipazione al voto, indice del desiderio del popolo egiziano di proseguire lungo il percorso politico ed […]

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WARSAW – First review of new Italian drama

On 17 and 18 May 2012 Warsaw hosted the first edition of a review of new Italian drama promoted and financed by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the Instytut Teatralny of Warsaw, an organization for the promotion and development of both Polish and foreign theatre, and with the magazine Dialog, which plans to […]

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Italy-Brazil: complementary economies, says Dassù

Italy and Brazil can rely on complementary economies and common historic-cultural roots, Under-Secretary Marta Dassù underscored during the Italo-Brazilian economic forum in Sao Paolo at the start of System Italy’s government-region-parliamentary mission, in which more than 600 commercial and institutional representatives from both Italy and Brazil participated.

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