The road to a solution in the Syrian crisis is still a rocky one. Damascus has annouced having begun to implement UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan’s peace plan but ,on the day specified for withdrawal of troops and heavy artillery, the Syrian Human Rights Watch reported that government forces had bombarded in […]
Read moreAt the G8 meeting in Washington on 11 and 12 April, “I will remind my colleagues of the urgent need to protect our troops deployed in counter-piracy missions”, asserted Minister Giulio Terzi, who will be participating on those days in the G8 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in the United States, not least in relation to the […]
Read moreStill 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreForeign 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreOver 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.
Read moreImmigration, 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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