FOREIGN MINISTRY NOTE – Start of the 48th session of the Human Rights Council (13 September – 8 October)

Today marks the start of the 48th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), the last regular session of Italy’s current three-year term as a member of the HRC (2019-2021). In 2018, Italy was elected as a member of the Council with broad support: 180 countries considered us qualified to sit on the United Nations’ […]

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Madrid: non-stop reading of the Divine Comedy

On Tuesday, September 14, a non-stop reading of the entire Divine Comedy will take place at the Circolo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. The event is part of the Madrid’s Dante programme, with which the Spanish capital is commemorating the seventh centenary of the death of Dante Alighieri, one of the greatest writers in the history of world literature. […]

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Minister Di Maio spoke at the G20 Interfaith Forum

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, spoke at the “Foreign Policy and Religion” panel of the G20 Interfaith Forum, an important platform for dialogue between political leaders and religious representatives.

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Migration Fund: the Foreign Ministry supports the UNHCR’s response to the Afghan crisis

As part of the national response to the Afghan crisis, a 1.5 million euro UNHCR project funded from the Migration Fund will begin on 15 September to prepare for the flow of Afghans who may find refuge in the countries of the region. The initiative will contribute to UNHCR’s emergency response to ensure the organisation’s preparedness to receive and […]

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Migration Fund: the Foreign Ministry supports the UNHCR’s response to the Afghan crisis

As part of the national response to the Afghan crisis, a 1.5 million euro UNHCR project funded from the Migration Fund will begin on 15 September to prepare for the flow of Afghans who may find refuge in the countries of the region. The initiative will contribute to UNHCR’s emergency response to ensure the organisation’s preparedness to receive and […]

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Italy-Malta collaboration on defence

The “Tullio Tedeschi” UNPAV (Unità Navale Polivalente ad Alta Velocità – High Speed Multipurpose Ship) joined the Mobile Training Team for the final week of training and, thanks to its strong support capabilities for the Special Forces, multiplied the payback gained from the training, to the benefit of all participants. The “Tullio Tedeschi” was hosted by the AMF […]

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Minsk: “There’s a beautiful land…”

The exhibition “There’s a beautiful land…”, organised in cooperation with the Italian Embassy and dedicated to Italian masters of the 16th-20th centuries in the fields of painting, graphics and sculpture, will open in Minsk on 22 September at the National Museum of Art of the Republic of Belarus. Among the paintings on display one of […]

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Inauguration of the exhibition “Un mirabile Inferno. Dante illustrato da Amos Nattini”

To mark the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation presents the exhibition “Un mirabile Inferno. Dante illustrato da Amos Nattini” (“An admirable Inferno. Dante illustrated by Amos Nattini”). This copy of the monumental edition that the Genoese artist Amos Nattini created in over 20 years […]

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The mission of AICS in Tanzania

From 2 to 12 September, a delegation of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation in Nairobi, led by Dr Davide Bonechi and composed of Dr Giulia Dagliana and Beatrice Borchi of the Global Health Centre of the Tuscany region, carried out an assessment mission to launch a donation project in the health field. The project […]

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Message from Minister Di Maio on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks

 

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Poland: Run on Together

The friendship between Italy and Poland goes on running! This is the slogan that the Italian Embassy in Warsaw wanted to launch with the running event “Run on Together”, scheduled for Sunday, September 12 from 11 am at Kempa Potocka Park in the capital. It will be an innovative and unprecedented event, conceived by the […]

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Foreign Ministry note – Deputy Minister Sereni: humanitarian assistance is firstly and foremostly about prevention

“Due to the sharp increase in the number of needy and vulnerable people, it is of the utmost importance to rethink how to provide them with as much humanitarian assistance as possible.” Deputy Foreign Minister Marina Sereni said as much at the virtual event “High-level Humanitarian Event on Anticipatory Action: A Commitment to Act Ahead of Crises” organized […]

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