Servicemen – ruling on jurisdiction postponed, but Italy insists it’s ours

The Indian court’s decision on jurisdiction in the case of two Italian servicemen will have to wait another week, but Italy insists that jurisdiction is ours. At the end of the High Court debate on Italy’s request, legal sources reported that the judge had reserved the right to pronounce his ruling next week, while the […]

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Lima: conference on Italy and Andean and Amason Studies Centre

Within the framework of Italo-Peruvian cultural cooperation, the Italian Cultural Institute of Lima is promoting the creation of an Italian Centre for Andean and Amazon Studies, to be housed in the Institute’s own rooms. The centre’s task will be to collect the experiences and data produced over the years by numerous Italian anthropologists, ethnologists, historians, […]

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The ASEAN AWARENESS FORUM will be held at the foreign ministry in Rome on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 March 2012. Organised by the MFA in collaboration with Confindustria, the event is intended to offer Italian businesses, associations and bodies engaged in the internationalization of our productive system, a complete and thorough picture of business […]

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SYRIA: “unacceptable situation”, says Ban ki-Moon – “The international community must speak with one voice”

The chorus of voices urging the UN Security Council to rule on the situation in Syria is growing; Secretary General Ban ki Moon himself defines it as “unacceptable”, while launching an appeal to the international community and the members of the Security Council to “speak with one voice to show unity”. The UN’s priorities, Ban […]

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Boniver: Non fasciamoci la testa

«Due cose diverse, successe in posti diversi. Trovo inutilmente strumentale collegarle». Margherita Boniver, ex sottosegretario agli Esteri e inviato speciale della Farnesina per le emergenze umanitarie confermato anche dal ministro Giulio Terzi, invita a non associare il caso degli ostaggi Paolo Bosusco e Claudio Colangelo con quello dei marò Massimiliano Latorre e Salvatore Girone. «C’è […]

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Under-Secretary Dassù meets with UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez Taranco

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Marta Dassù received UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez Taranco today at the foreign ministry in Rome. They reviewed the principal ongoing international events, with an ample discussion of developments in the Syrian crisis and the international community’s commitment – the United Nations’ in particular – to […]

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Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi sent condolences today to his Egyptian colleague Kemal Amr for the passing of His Holiness Shenouda III, Patriarch of Alexandria and of the See of St. Mark. Recalling that on the occasion of his visit to Cairo it had not been possible to meet with the Patriarch as a […]

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Brasilia: economic workshop on italo-brazilian development models

The Embassy of Italy in Brasilia hosted an economic workshop last week “Brazil and Italy in the global context: experiences and models of development”, whose more than two hundred participants represented major Italian and Brazilian economic concerns that included Telecom Italia, Intesa Sanpaolo and Avio. The initiative was organised by the Guido and Maria Carli […]

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150 YEARS OF ITALY – Festivities for the “grand beginning”, and cultivating the “legacy of unity”

Head of State Giorgio Napolitano closed the festivities for the 150th anniversary of Italian Unity, underscoring that each and every event that took place over the course of the year had been “an explosion of patriotic participation”. The Head of State defined the event as having been a great success, and how the celebrations had […]

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Tbilisi: exhibition of 150 years of images of Italian UNESCO sites

The photographic exhibition “Lens on the landscape – 150 years of images of Italian UNESCO sites” will open on Thursday 22 March at 15:00 at the National Museum of Georgia in Tbilisi, and will be the final event of the celebrations in Georgia for the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy. The exhibition will […]

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India: Terzi to Krishna, priority the safety of hostages

Any initiative undertaken by the Indian authorities must have the “priority objective of ensuring the hostages’ safety”. This was Minister Terzi’s request of his Indian colleague S.M. Krishna in the course of a telephone conversation concerning the case of the two Italian tourists abducted in Orissa. During the conversation Minister Krishna updated Terzi on the […]

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Cairo – steel works: € 70 million in contracts for Danieli

Italy confirmed its role as Egypt’s top economic-trade partner. After the successes of Ansaldo (€245 million in contracts for an electrical power plant) and Technimont ($520 million in contracts for the construction of a fertiliser plant in Aswan), the Danieli firm signed a contract for €50 million for the construction of a “greenfield” steel working […]

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