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An international conference on “Montessori Today: global outlook and intercultural aspects” will take place at the Foreign Ministry in Rome on 24 February 2012. The Conference will be opened at 09.30 by Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi. Also taking part will be the Minister for Employment and Social Policies, Elsa Fornero, and the Under-Secretary for Education, […]

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ANSAMed Forum at the Foreign Ministry in Rome: The Arab Spring and the role of the media in the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue

ANSAMed, the branch of ANSA covering the Mediterranean, has organised a meeting, hosted by the Foreign Ministry, for European and North African journalists. The aim was to discuss the role of the media one year on from the Arab Spring. A story where so much remains to be told, and which is a challenge for […]

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Iniziativa editoriale della Farnesina – “Il Console onorario in Italia” (in translation)

Chi è il Console onorario? Cosa lo distingue dal Console di carriera? Quali sono il suo ruolo, la sua storia, le sue funzioni? A questi e ad altri numerosi aspetti di una figura istituzionale ancora poco conosciuta dal grande pubblico, eppure sorprendentemente moderna, risponde il volume “Il Console onorario in Italia”, di recente pubblicato dal […]

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SYRIA: A peaceful political solution to the crisis, says Terzi – Italy is ready to support new EU and UN measures

Italy is ready to support new UN, EU and Arab League measures to find a peaceful political solution to the crisis in Syria. The Italian position was reiterated by Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, speaking from Frankfurt. The Minister was attending a meeting of Germany’s DGAP foreign policy think tank at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung headquarters. […]

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Speech detail

(valid only the actual speech delivered) I am delighted to open and chair the 16th session of the Mediterranean Forum. We felt a strong need for the FOROMED to meet. Indeed, our last meeting took place in Algiers in 2008, when the discussion focused on the birth of the UpM. After the Arab Spring and […]

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Montevideo: the year of italian culture opens in Uruguay

“Manantiales”, one of the best-known places near Punta del Este, is the perfect setting for Omar Galliani’s exhibition “Notturno”. The artist is one of the greatest representatives of Italian contemporary art and is in Uruguay especially for the opening. The exhibition was organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Montevideo, in collaboration with curator Massimo […]

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Italy-Egypt: new opportunities for Italian businesses

A meeting that provided “a wealth of proposals and advice” for Italian entrepreneurs operating in Egypt. This was how Minister Giulio Terzi described the meeting at the foreign ministry in Rome with his Egyptian counterpart, Kemal Amr, and leading members of both countries’ business communities. The Terzi-Amr meeting is a follow-up to last month’s meeting […]

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Italy-China: numbers of chinese students enrolling in italian universities shows marked increase

There has been a further marked increase in the numbers of Chinese students enrolling in Italian universities for academic year 2012-13 through the Marco Polo and Turandot programmes. The rise is in line with the trend for recent years. The Marco Polo programme envisages one semester of Italian language study for foreign students, in our […]

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G20 Messico: Under-Secretary Dassù attends the ministerial

The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Marta Dassù, attended the G20 Ministerial in Los Cabos, Mexico, on 19 and 20 February 2012. She was delegated to attend by Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi. The meeting in Los Cabos, convened by the Mexican Presidency, was the first meeting of G20 Foreign Ministers. Under-Secretary Dassù underscored the role diplomacy […]

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Case involving Italian ship, the Enrica Lexie: Minister Terzi sends Under-Secretary De Mistura to India

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has decided to send Under-Secretary Staffan De Mistura to India in relation to the case involving the Italian ship, the Enrica Lexie. The Under-Secretary leaves for India today. Minister Terzi has instructed him to continue, at the political level, the work already carried out by the delegation of Italian experts from […]

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Minister Terzi’s bilateral meeting with his Moroccan colleague Saad-Eddine El Othmani

In a bilateral meeting in the late afternoon with Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Morocco, Saad-Eddine El Othmani, Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi ended a long and intense day of diplomatic activity associated with the 9th conference of foreign ministers of the 5+5 Mediterranean Dialogue. Reiterating Italy’s desire to […]

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Minister Terzi meets with Greek foreign minister Stavros Dima

Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi met this evening at the foreign ministry in Rome with his Greek counterpart Stavros Dimas in the margins of the 5+5 Ministerial Meeting and FOROMED, the positive outcome of which was the topic of their discussion As Dimas informed him on the evolving situation in Greece, Minister Terzi confirmed […]

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