Minister Terzi summons the Indian Ambassador to Rome to the Foreign Ministry

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi summoned the Indian Ambassador to Rome, Debrabata Saha, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, 6 March 2012. Minister Terzi was acting in the name of the Italian Government to protest against the conduct of the Indian authorities with respect to the two Italian military held in Trivandrum following the events […]

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Italy-Pakistan: MFA Envoy meets Pakistan’s Foreign Minister

The peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan, the dialogue between Afghanistan and Pakistan and between Afghanistan and the US, bilateral relations between Italy and Pakistan. These were the focus for the discussion between the Pakistani Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, and Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi’s Envoy to the region, Francesco Talò. At the close […]

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Press release detail

On Minister Giulio Terzi’s instructions, Secretary-General Giampiero Massolo conveyed the Italian government’s deep concern to the Indian chargé d’affaires in Rome, Saurabh Kumar, over the Kollam court’s decision to place Marshall Massimiliano Latorre and Sergeant Salvatore Girone under the custody of the Trivandrum prison, effective immediately. Defining such measures as unacceptable, considering the status of […]

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Sofia: new italian cinema at the International Film Festival

A month of cinema in Bulgaria: the 16th edition of the Sofia International Film Festival will take place from 9 March to 5 April 2012 in the cities of Sofia, Burgas, Plovdiv and Varna. The Italian Cultural Institute of Sofia will take this excellent opportunity to present the best in recent Italian cinema production. To […]

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Cuba: investment opportunities for Italy, meeting at the IILA

Trade and investment opportunities for Italy in Cuba will be the theme of a meeting on Thursday 8 March at the Italo-Latin American Institute (IILA) in Rome. The sectors in question will include farming and food production, energy, the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnologies, culture, machinery and mining, infrastructure, TICS and tourism. The meeting is sponsored […]

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Italy-Arab Emirates: growing trade relations

Recent estimates by the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF), a regional organisation designed on the model of the IMF, affiliated with the Arab League and headquartered in Cairo, confirm the top position earned by the United Arab Emirates in 2010 as the top Arab world market also for 2011. As regards Italy, the Emirates are the […]

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Warsaw: exhibition ‘People and the City’, from the Unicredit collection

The Unicredit Group collection comes to Poland with the exhibition “People and the City”, which opened on 2 March in Torun and features many of the collection’s major pieces, including “Piazza d’Italia”(1970) by Giorgio De Chirico and “Paesaggio” (1925) by Giorgio Morandi, and the photo “Birmingham” (2008) by Marco Zanta To read more select ITALIANO […]

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Press Notice detail

Head of the Foreign Ministry Press and Institutional Communication Service Giuseppe Manzo will hold a press briefing on Tuesday, 6 March, at 12:30 for accredited members of the press to outline Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi’s agenda of future international commitments. To obtain accreditation please send an e-mail to accreditamentostampa@esteri.it or a fax to […]

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Montevideo: last leg of the written in Italy tour, Italian literature abroad

The long journey of Written in Italy – the first itinerant library of Italian literature translated abroad – comes to an end in Latin America where it began with the first edition in Argentina. Twelve stops in over four years, covering more than 100,000 kilometres, for an unprecedented experience that will wind up in Montevideo […]

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Press notice detail

Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi will meet at the foreign ministry in Rome on Wednesday 7 March 2012 with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Ethiopia Ato HailemariamDesalegn. The meeting will be followed by a joint press conference at approx. 15.30. Journalists and camera operators interested in covering the event are asked to […]

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Speech by Minister Terzi at the Aspen Seminar «Double transition: Economics and politics across Europe and the Mediterranean»

(please check against actual speech delivered) “Double transition: Economics and politics across Europe and the Mediterranean” The changing geopolitics of the Middle East: real dangers and common interests Last year’s events were a watershed for the Middle East and North Africa. The title of this Aspen Bosphorus Dialogue rightly stresses that the transition is double. […]

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Boniver: riporteremo a casa le due ragazze

L’austerity decisa dal governo colpisce – certo, non volendolo – anche le missioni per salvare gli italiani rapiti all’estero. Tutto ciò è successo a Margherita Boniver, deputato del Pdl e inviato speciale dal ministro degli Affari esteri per gestire i contatti per la liberazione degli ostaggi in Africa, che avrebbe dovuto incontrare il presidente della […]

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