Call for Tender for World Food Day

Still a couple of days to participate in the MFA’s call for tenders for organising World Food Day, to be celebrated in Rome on 16 October 2012. The winning agency will handle not only the logistical organization of the event but also communication and press office activities. The Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the […]

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Cooperation: Education for girls in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Education Minister, the Italian Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Director of UNESCO’s International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) met recently for the signing ceremony for the project on “Retaining Girls in Lower Secondary Schools and Increasing their Learning Outcomes in Ethiopia”. 500,000 dollars allocated The project is a result of a […]

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Momento Italia-Brasile: Gattinoni at Brasilia Fashion Week

The Gattinoni fashion house took pride of place at Brasilia’s Fashion Week, with an international fashion show hosted by the Italian Embassy. The 2-day event attracted key figures from the worlds of politics, diplomacy and fashion, as well as journalists from the sector and young designers and students. Science Without Borders During the pre-show press […]

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Montevideo – the last stage of Written in Italy, an exhibition featuring Italian literature in translation

The travelling exhibition “Written in Italy” has reached its last destination, Uruguay, after a journey of over 100,000 km. The exhibition features an extraordinary collection of works from Italian literature translated into numerous languages. In Montevideo, it opened the Year of Italian Culture in Uruguay. Accompanying the event was a presentation on the work of […]

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Meeting between Minister Terzi and the Hon. Matteo Mecacci, Chairman of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee for Human Rights

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi received the Hon. Matteo Mecacci, Chairman of the Committee for Human Rights of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, today 5 April 2012. During their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Rome, Minister Terzi confirmed the Italian Government’s strong support for the work of the OSCE […]

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Syria: UN Security Council backs Annan plan

The UN Security Council approved a declaration backing Kofi Annan’s mission to Syria and calling  for compliance with the 10 April deadline for military withdrawal, to be followed within 48 hours by a ceasefire. Ceasefire within 12 April The declaration demands that the Syrian government comply “immediately, and no later than 10 April next”, with […]

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Bosusco kidnapping: “The negotiations are on-going; we feel confident”. Italian marines: “We’re keeping up the pressure on the jurisdiction principle”

The negotiations for the release of Paolo Bosusco, the Italian hostage held by Maoists in India, “are making progress and we feel confident about the outcome”. These were the words of Minister Giulio Terzi, after reviewing with the Crisis Unit the situation of the ten Italian nationals held hostage abroad. As regards the case of […]

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Safe Travel – Understand the risks before you leave, says Terzi

The Foreign Ministry’s Crisis Unit is handling the cases of Italian nationals kidnapped abroad with “great diligence and commitment, 24/7”. The point was underscored by Minister Giulio Terzi, at the end of a meeting with officials from the Crisis Unit to review the situation. The Minister also underlined that “we remain confident” as to the […]

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Prague: Italian and Czech photography students show their work at the Italian Cultural Institute

Over 50 photographs by students of the Institut tvůrčí fotografie in Opava and the Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (LABA) in Brescia will be on display at the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague from 2 to 14 April. Read more, in Italian.

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Buenos Aires: immigration and identity – a concert at the Park of Remembrance

Immigration, exile and the construction of identity, starting with the memory of the communities who emigrated to America. Questions that are keenly felt in Argentina, as they are in Italy. And which are now the subject of the concert “In the Blood: dreams of water and landfall”. Virginia Innocenti takes centre stage The performance features […]

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Terzi: “Now Burma must release all its political prisoners” (La Stampa)

As Mark Twain said, “this is Burma, and it will be different from any other country you know…”. The quote by Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata expresses the hope that, with the G8 foreign ministers’ meeting next week in Washington, and then the EU meeting in Brussels on 23 April, a decisive period is […]

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ASEAN Forum: New investment opportunities in southeast Asia

The Secretary General of ASEAN, Surin Pitsuwan, and the member states’ heads of delegation, have expressed their great satisfaction with the outcome of the ASEAN Awareness Forum. The Forum took place at the Foreign Ministry on 22-23 March 2012. The Forum was the first “awareness-raising” initiative organised in Europe and involving all the ASEAN countries. […]

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