UN condemns repression in Syria

With 137 votes in favour, 12 against and 17 abstentions, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution condemning the Bashar al Assad regime’s repression in Syria. After vetoing twice in the Security Council, Russia and China voted against the text presented by Egypt in representation of the Arab countries and 70 other “co-sponsors”. North Korea, […]

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The Euro-Mediterranean dialogue is relaunched from Rome: the northern and southern Mediterranean countries more closely united to face new challenges

The Euro-Mediterranean dialogue has been relaunched from Rome, spurred by Italy, in a meeting of the 5+5 dialogue forum. The Forum groups together Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Malta from the northern Mediterranean and Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Mauritania from the south. It  met in the afternoon session with Egypt, Greece and Turkey in […]

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Terzi:«Mediterranean centrality» (Il Tempo)

The Arab spring has forced Europe to “reset” its relations with the Mediterranean. For twenty years now, since the end of the Cold War, Europe’s attention has been trained on Eastern Europe with the legitimate, and widely agreed, goal of reunifying a continent far too long artificially divided. The Balkan crises ended up absorbing what […]

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Secretary General Ambassador Massolo meets with Ambassador of India to Rome Debabrata Saha

On Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi’s instructions, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Giampiero Massolo met today with Ambassador of India to Rome Debabrata Saha to discuss the case involving crew members of the Italian ship “Enrica Lexie”. During the meeting Massolo Massolo delivered a letter from Minister Terzi addressed to his […]

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Italy-Georgia: new commercial trade record: +72,9%

Italy and Georgia have set a new commercial trade record: according to ISTAT, annual growth in the first 10 months of 2011 was up 72.9%, surpassing €183 million, a new high for the January-October period. Italian exports to Georgia went up by 19.8% to €108.8 million, and were led by the sector of machinery and […]

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Italy-Turkey: Amb. Scarante meets with agriculture Min. to strengthen relations

Ambassador of Italy to Turkey Gianpaolo Scarante met on Thursday 16 February with Minister for Turkish Agriculture and Rural Affairs Mehmet Mehdi Eker, with whom he reviewed the broad panorama of Italo-Turkish relations in the farming and food production sector. Minister Eker pointed out the strategic importance of agriculture in the Turkish economy, despite the […]

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Maputo – ENI: gas naturale discovered in Mozambico

ENI has discovered a reserve of approximately 212.5 billion cubic metres of natural gas in the Rovuma basin in northern Mozambique. The discovery, made in the second well sunk by ENI (Mamba North), is in addition to that of October 2011 in the first well (Mamba South), bringing the overall potential for the Mamba complex […]

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Minister Terzi speaks by telephone with Croatian foreign minister Vesna Pusić

Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi held a telephone meeting today with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Croatia, who expressed his gratitude, and that of Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, for Italy’s rapid launch of the process for ratification of Croatia’s accession to the European Union. Reiterating Italy’s intention to be among the first Member States […]

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Press notice detail

On Tuesday 21 February Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata will meet with his Egyptian counterpart Kemal Amr. At the end of the meeting the ministers will meet with several major representatives of the two countries’ business communities. A press conference will follow: 10:30 approx: round table photo of business meeting (photographers and […]

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Press notice detail

Please be reminded that the Ninth Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Western Mediterranean Dialogue (5+5), followed by the FOROMED meeting, will be held on Monday 20 February 2012 in Rome (Villa Madama). The 5+5, to be co-chaired by Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata and his Tunisian counterpart Rafik Ben Abdessalem, will focus […]

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Minister Terzi hails un general assembly adoption of a resolution on Syria

“This is an important signal regarding the role that the United Nations and the Arab League can and must play in seeking a solution to the critical situation in Syria”, Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi commented on the UN General Assembly’s adoption of a resolution on Syria. “This strong signal from the highest multilateral […]

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Ninth conference of the Western Mediterranean Dialogue

The status of regional Mediterranean relations will be the central focus of the ninth foreign ministers conference of the Western Mediterranean Dialogue (5+5), scheduled for Monday 20 February n Rome (Villa Madama), to be enlarged in the afternoon to the FOROMED format. The conference will be co-chaired by Minister Giulio Terzi and his Tunisian colleague […]

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