Launch of the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit (Rome, 26-28 July)

The “Pre-Food Systems Summit” (26-28 July) kicked off today at FAO’s Rome headquarters. It is a substantive preparatory event that will set the stage in view of the Food Systems Summit that UN Secretary-General Guterres has convened for the Ministerial Week of the 76th General Assembly in September. The event confirms Italy’s role as a […]

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The video game “Italy. Land of Wonders”

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces the launch of ‘ITALY. Land of Wonders’, a video game that is aimed at bringing the cultural heritage and wonders of Italy to a worldwide audience in general, and to young people in particular. Graphically appealing and targeted to both children and adults and created by Infinity Reply, ‘ITALY. Land […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Luigi Di Maio and the Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, held a telephone conversation with his Algerian counterpart, Ramtane Lamamra. The agenda included prospects for bilateral cooperation between Italy and Algeria and discussions on the main regional issues.      

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The “Padova Urbs Picta” Sites and Montecatini Terme included in the World Heritage List of UNESCO

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee, meeting online for its 44th session, has decided to include two new Italian sites in the World Heritage List. They are respectively “Padova Urbs Picta”, with the Scrovegni Chapel and its 14th century fresco cycles, and Montecatini Terme, the latter being included in the “Great SPAs of Europe” circuit and […]

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US-Europe Communiqué on Afghanistan and Peace Efforts

The Special Representatives and Special Envoys of the United States of America, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, NATO, Norway, and the United Kingdom met in Rome on 22 July 2021 to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and the developments in Afghanistan peace negotiations after the latest round of high-level talks in Doha on July […]

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D.M. Di Stefano calls a meeting of the Steering Committee on the Sea after approval of the Law on the setting up of the Exclusive Economic Zone

This morning the Deputy Minister chaired the meeting of the Inter-ministerial Steering Committee on the Sea, set up to align the various administrations’ approaches to Italy’s international standing on maritime matters. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Presidency of the Republic, Presidency of the Council, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Defence, Ministry […]

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Presentation event: “Lessons from Sciascia, around the world”

The Comitato Nazionale Sciasciano has designed a cycle of “Lessons from Sciascia” that began in Italy and is now continuing as a virtual “relay” around the world, including in cultures and countries that are very distant one from another, but are all animated by the desire to read and reread Leonardo Sciascia in a cosmopolitan […]

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Joint statements by Minister Luigi Di Maio and the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed

Today the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, will be meeting the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed.  At the end of the meeting, they will be issuing joint statements.  

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Meeting of the Special Envoys for Afghanistan

The meeting of the Special Envoys for Afghanistan from Europe (Italy, France, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom) and the United States took place on 22 July at the Foreign Ministry, opened by Deputy Minister Di Stefano. The NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, a representative of the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Qatari Special […]

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Meeting of the Special Envoys for Afghanistan

The meeting of the Special Envoys for Afghanistan from Europe (Italy, France, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom) and the United States took place on 22 July at the Foreign Ministry, opened by Deputy Minister Di Stefano. The NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, a representative of the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Qatari Special […]

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Chile: Ferrero Group Investment

The Italian Company, Agrichile, the agricultural branch of the Ferrero Group, in business in Italy for 30 years, has announced that it is to invest US Dollars 40 million in a new hazelnut processing plant in the Nuble Region, in central-southern Chile. Construction of the new plant will begin at the end of 2021 and […]

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Venice has been confirmed as an emblematic site on the UNESCO World Heritage List

Venice will not be classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Danger. At its 44th session, conducted in virtual mode this afternoon from Fuzhou (China), the UNESCO World Heritage Committee did not unanimously accept the proposal, tabled by the technical assessment body ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites),  to include the site “Venice […]

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