Information note – Mission to Moscow: joint press conference by Minister Di Maio – Minister Lavrov

On Thursday, 17 February 2022, at 10:00 AM (Rome time), the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, on a diplomatic mission to Moscow, will hold a joint press conference with the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov. It will be possible to follow the press conference in live streaming at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/ItalyMFA.it

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Diplomatic mission by Minister Di Maio to the Russian Federation

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation is on a diplomatic mission to Moscow to meet with the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov.  

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Ukraine. Della Vedova has a conference call with the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Within the framework of the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the Italian Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Benedetto Della Vedova, had a video conference call with the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Tiny Cox, on the Ukrainian crisis. Undersecretary […]

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“ARTE e Tecnologia -Il ruolo dell’Italia nella digitalizzazione dello Zambia”

The Italian Embassy in Zambia is organising the event “ART and Technology” on Thursday, February 17, from 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. With the participation of the Zambian Minister for Technology and Science Hon. Felix Mutati, this event, which is the third one of a series of five events, is part of the Project “Italia-Zambia, […]

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Berlin: The Italian Embassy welcomes the stars of Italian cinema

The Italian Embassy in Berlin celebrated the participation of Italian cinema in the 72nd International Film Festival by hosting an event with film directors, actors, producers and technical experts. “I am very happy that in Berlin we are represented by a recognized master like Paolo Taviani and by several young film directors, a combination of […]

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Brussels: Deputy Minister Sereni opens Italy-Belgium panel for the promotion of women’s rights

In order to strengthen bilateral relations with Belgium even in terms of promoting women’s rights and combating gender inequality, the Italian Embassy in Brussels, with the assistance of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, set up an informal bilateral panel on such issues, which featured Italian and Belgian high-profile personalities proceeding from several sectors of […]

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Sydney: a musical journey to celebrate Dante

“In Viaggio con Dante“, a musical show divided into three parts:Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, concluded the initiatives organized to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death. It was presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney in collaboration with Vicinity QBV. On February 24, at the Queen Victoria Building, the music performed on the piano by […]

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Humanitarian flight of the Italian Cooperation landed in Baghdad

On 14 February, a humanitarian flight of the Italian cooperation landed in Baghdad airport. It left the Emergency humanitarian aid base in Brindisi with about 6 tonnes of medical supplies to fight COVID-19 (lung ventilators, surgical masks, FFP2 masks, protective clothing and gloves), mainly made available by the support structure to the extraordinary Commissioner for the COVID-19 […]

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Tunis: a documentary on the “Sicilians of Africa”

“Sicilians of Africa. Tunisia, the promised land” is the title of the documentary film, produced by Alfonso Campisi and directed by Marcello Bivona, that the Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis will premiere at the CinéMad’Art in Carthage on 17 and 18 February. The film tells the story of the Sicilian community in Tunisia during the […]

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Minister Di Maio holds a telephone conversation with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock

The border crisis between Russia and Ukraine, the recent contacts with Kiev and Moscow, and security in Europe were some of the principal issues discussed in today’s telephone conversation between the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, and his German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock. The telephone conversation was held within the […]

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Minister Di Maio will be in Moscow this evening on a diplomatic mission

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, will be in Moscow on a diplomatic mission this evening to meet with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov. The meeting is scheduled to take place tomorrow morning, Thursday, 17 February. Minister Di Maio’s mission, which follows his visit to […]

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Asteroid named after Nobel Prize winner Parisi

On 7 February 2022, the working group for Small Bodies Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) accepted the proposal made by the Astronomical and Cultural Club of Farra d’Isonzo (CCAF) to call the asteroid discovered in Farra d’Isonzo on 7 February 1994 with the name (15803) Parisi (the number in brackets before the name is typical of asteroids). […]

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