Under-Secretary Dassu’ meets with Colombian Trade Minister Sergio Diaz Granados Guida

Under-Secretary Dassù met today at the Headquarters of Unioncamere with Colombian Trade Minister Sergio Diaz Granados Guida, on the occasion of the “Country Presidentation: Colombia” organised by the Foreign Ministry, Unioncamere and Confindustria, in collaboration with the Embassy of Colombia.The meeting offered an opportunity to review the excellent status of relations between Italy and Colombia, […]

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SYRIA: Italian Embassy activities in Damascus suspended

Italy today suspended the activities of its Embassy in Damascus and recalled its diplomatic mission staff. The decision was taken “not least in consideration of series security concerns, in unison with our European Union partners, and to reiterate the firmest condemnation of the unacceptable violence perpetrated by the Syrian regime against its citizens”.Italy will continue […]

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Cooperation: needs to be stronger to make Italy a leader

The Italian Cooperation has to be stronger in order for Italy to be an international leader. This was the message from Minister for Cooperation Andrea Riccardi and Under-Secretary Marta Dassù during the first meeting of the Development Cooperation Steering Committee on 12 March.The two members of the government sparked a broad-based reflection on Italian official […]

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Izmir: the Livio Minafra Quartet at the Jazz Festival

The Livio Minafra Quartet closed out Italy’s participation in the 19th Izmir Jazz Festival. Accompanied by the students of the Academy of Fine Arts of IKSEV, they playing to an audience of 400 persons who greeted the wind and percussion jam session energy and enthusiasm. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the […]

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MARINES AND THE “ABDUCTED”: The commitment to bring them home – Terzi reports to the parliament, “foreign ministry resources shrinking rapidly”

In Minister Giulio Terzi’s report to the Lower House, following that of the Upper House, he informed the parliament on the government’s line of action in incidents in Nigeria and India and, more in general, with regard to all Italians still being held by kidnappers: “transparency” on the procedures the government intends to adopt and […]

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Moscow: Furla, fashion becomes art: installation and new products

The Embassy of Italy in Moscow was the setting on 12 March for “Candy Brissima Show on Tour”. The initiative, sponsored by the Furla Foundation, gave Bolognese artist Sissi – winner of the 2002 “Furla per l’Arte” prize – a chance to present an installation of her work to a group of Russian fashion and […]

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Come si salva l’Italia

«Non ho scritto questo libro per il piacere di scrivere, l’ho scritto per amore: amore verso la mia gente, verso il mio Paese, verso il mio Signore» (e verrebbe da aggiungere: amore “verso la Verità”). Così ci racconta l’arcivescovo di Chieti-Vasto, monsignor Bruno Forte — don Bruno come lo chiamano i suoi fedeli — alla […]

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la Bulgaria bussa alle porte di Schengen

I dubbi sulle capacità di controllare il traffico sui propri confini sono alla base del veto posto da alcuni paesi europei all’ingresso negli spazi di Schengen per Bulgaria e Romania. Dinanzi all’irrompere dei fenomeni legati all’immigrazione clandestina e all’incertezza sulle possibilità di effettuare un serio controllo alle frontiere orientali dell’Europa, si è al momento preferito […]

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”Trasparenza e ritorno a casa degli ostaggi” – Terzi al Senato, gli obiettivi del governo (in translation)

”Trasparenza” e ”impegno a riportare tutti gli ostaggi a casa”: sono le priorita’ del governo al centro dell’intervento del Ministro Giulio Terzi al Senato con particolare riferimento al blitz in Nigeria che ha provocato la morte dell’ingegnere italiano Franco Lamolinara e quella di un cittadino britannico, e all’arresto in India dei due maro’. Il governo […]

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SIRIA: Terzi, Comunita’ internazionale agisca compatta (in translation)

“Il regime siriano conferma ferocia e cecità politica. La comunità internazionale agisca compatta e senza ulteriori indugi. Basta massacri”: lo scrive il Ministro Giulio Terzi in un tweet, mentre ad Ankara l’inviato di Onu e Lega araba Kofi Annan incontra l’opposizione siriana (il Consiglio nazionale siriano, Cns) che promette “piena cooperazione” politica e dice che […]

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Nigeria, Terzi in Senato: informazione Gb tardiva ma non intenzionale (in translation)

Il governo ha la “forte volontà” di procedere in modo “trasparente” sulla morte di Franco Lamolinara e di “condividere con il Parlamento” le informazioni di cui dispone. Lo ha detto il Ministro Giulio Terzi nella sua informativa nell’aula del Senato sul caso dell’ingegnere italiano rimasto ucciso in Nigeria nel corso di un blitz delle forze […]

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Human Rights must be asserted to ensure international security, says Terzi

“By asserting human rights, democracy and rule of law we can more effectively combat the deep sources of threat to international security”. This was Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi’s message – read by Under-Secretary Marta Dassù – at the opening of the second cycle of encounters with students at the foreign ministry on the […]

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