FOREIGN MINISTRY NOTE – Italian exports see growth

In September 2020, for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic, Italian exports to non-EU member countries increased once again by 3%, year-over-year, as certified yesterday by the office for national statistics ISTAT. The data regarding exports to some of our main outlet markets (outside the EU) were particularly outstanding: Italian exports to […]

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Minister Luigi Di Maio meets with the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Riad Malki

Minister Di Maio met with the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Riad Malki. On the agenda: the peace process in the Middle East, bilateral relations between Italy and the Palestinian National Authority, the support of the Italian Cooperation to Palestine.  

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Meeting with the Custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, and the Apostolic Delegate, Msgr. Leopoldo Girelli

Minister Di Maio met today in Jerusalem with the Custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, and the Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Leopoldo Girelli.  

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Mission of Minister Di Maio in Palestine

Today, Minister Di Maio will visit Palestine. During this mission he will meet with the Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, and the Foreign Minister, Riad Malki. Minister Di Maio meets with the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Riad Malki      

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Minister Luigi Di Maio meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Minister Luigi Di Maio has met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Italy welcomes the signing of the #AbrahamAccords  and continues to support the relaunch of the peace process, a milestone for a just, sustainable and lasting two-state solution.  

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Sereni, the ECHR calls for action to protect women and gender equality

“The European Convention on Human Rights represents a still unparalleled system aimed at protecting the human rights and political freedoms of more than 830 million people in 47 European countries and for this reason Italy is proud to have hosted the signing ceremony in Rome, seventy years ago” declared Marina Sereni, Italy’s Vice Minister for […]

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ECHR: Sereni, the Convention on Human Rights calls for action to protect women and gender equality

“The European Convention on Human Rights represents a still unparalleled system aimed at protecting the human rights and political freedoms of more than 830 million people in 47 European countries and for this reason Italy is proud to have hosted the signing ceremony in Rome, seventy years ago” declared Marina Sereni, Italy’s Vice Minister for […]

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Minister Di Maio meets President Reuven Rivlin

Minister Luigi Di Maio met today with the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin for a wide-ranging exchange of views on bilateral collaboration and regional issues. Israel is a strategic partner in the scientific field, also in the fight against COVID19. He re-iterated Italy’s commitment to counter anti-Semitism.  

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Minister Di Maio visits the Yad Vashem

Minister Luigi Di Maio visited the Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Remembrance Centre, a memorial to both the Jewish victims who perished in the Holocaust and the Righteous among the Nations, Gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews from extermination.  

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Minister Luigi Di Maio meets with Minister Gabi Ashkenazi

The focus of the talks were the peace process and the signing of the #AbrahamAccord. They also signed a cultural and scientific collaboration protocol, a new opportunity to further strengthen the already extensive cooperation between Italy and Israel.              

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Minister Di Maio on a mission to Israel

Today, Minister Di Maio will be visiting Israel, where he is expected to hold talks with President Reuven Rivlin, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabi Ashkenazi, and the Alternate Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Benni Gantz, Opposition leader Yair Lapid. Minister Luigi Di Maio meets with Minister Gabi Ashkenazi […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy 28 October: latest news from around the world

CHINA – INAUGURATION OF THE TIAN MU LI MULTIPURPOSE COMPLEX IN HANGZHOU, DESIGNED BY RENZO PIANO. The Tian Mu Li multipurpose complex, designed by the Italian starchitect Renzo Piano, who also supervised its construction, was recently inaugurated in Hanghzou, China. The complex, which features a total indoor floor space of 230,000 m2, consists of 17 […]

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