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The ASEAN AWARENESS FORUM will take place at the Foreign Ministry in Rome on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 March 2012. This first plenary event is being organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with Confindustria, the employers’ federation. It will provide Italian enterprises, associations and internationalisation bodies with a full and comprehensive […]

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The Summit of the League of Arab States will be taking place in Baghdad from 27 to 29 March 2012. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has created a special website http://www.arabsummit.iq/default.aspx where journalists and other media representatives interested in following the event can find information on accreditation and visa application procedures. Representatives of the media can […]

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Ankara: pianist Mattia Ometto in concerto at the University of Baskent

The Italian Cultural Institute in Ankara, in collaboration with the University of Bashkent and the Orkestra Akademik Başkent, has organized a concert at the University on 22 March 2012 by pianist Mattia Ometto, accompanied by the same orchestra, who will perform music by Mozart and Suk. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of […]

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Mexico City: Italian mission to Puebla to boost economic and cultural relations

Italian Ambassador to Mexico Roberto Spinelli made a recent mission to the State of Puebla to meet with the local authorities with a view to boosting economic and cultural collaboration. On that occasion the local ICE office received the Tetraelica Award of the Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), important recognition of the […]

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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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