VM Del Re receives Bioversity International General Manager

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re received at the Foreign Ministry Juan Luca Restrepo, General Manager of Bioversity International, an international organisation based in Maccarese and part of the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) Consortium. The meeting enabled the Vice Minister to describe the most important current and future initiatives of the Bioversity International-CIAT […]

Read more

International day against the death penalty

On the World and European Day against the Death Penalty celebrated today, Italy reiterates its strongest condemnation of the death penalty in all circumstances. Italy believes that the Death Penalty has no deterrent value concerning crime while making any judicial error dramatically irreversible. In occasion of the ministerial week of the 75th session of the […]

Read more

Di Maio: Success and joy built on “Soft Power” (Avvenire)

Dear Editor, I would like to share with you and your readers the joy of having brought home, after a long period of imprisonment in the hands of terrorist groups, Father Pier Luigi Maccalli and Nicola Chiacchio, whom I welcomed in Ciampino together with the Prime Minister. It was the outcome of a very complex […]

Read more

Minister di Maio participates in the EU Foreign Affairs Council

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, is in Luxembourg today to participate in the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union. The agenda is available at the following link: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/it/meetings/fac/2020/10/12/      

Read more

Nota Farnesina – Nagorno-Karabakh

We acknowledge positively the announcement of the humanitarian ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, facilitated by the Russian Federation. We appreciate the simultaneous commitment of the parties to promote substantive negotiations for the solution of the conflict. We reaffirm the impossibility of a solution to the conflict with arms and renew our call on the parties […]

Read more

Di Stefano: Aerospace is a leading sector of our economy

Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano spoke this afternoon at the 84th Fiera del Levante in Bari on “The value of the aerospace sector for the country and the repercussions on the Apulia economic system”. “Today, aerospace must be reconnected to the difficult times we are going through,” the Undersecretary began. “This is a crucial sector with […]

Read more

Di Stefano: Aerospace is increasingly a leading sector in our economy

Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano spoke this afternoon at the 84th Fiera del Levante in Bari on “The value of the aerospace sector for the country and the repercussions on the Apulia economic system”. “Today, aerospace must be reconnected to the difficult times we are going through,” the Undersecretary began. “This is a crucial sector with […]

Read more

Del Re with UN Deputy SG: great joy for the Nobel Prize at WFP

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re had a conversation in VTC with the Vice Secretary-General of the United Nations. Amina Mohammed. Both expressed great joy and satisfaction for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP), based in Rome. “In this award, there is also a little bit of Italy,” […]

Read more

Del Re with UN Vice SG, Amina Mohammed: great joy for the Nobel Prize at WFP

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re had a conversation in VTC with the Vice Secretary-General of the United Nations. Amina Mohammed. Both expressed great joy and satisfaction for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP), based in Rome. “In this award, there is also a little bit of Italy,” […]

Read more

Italy-France. Di Stefano: “Teaming up for recovery

Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano received at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Franck Riester, Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attraction of France. The meeting provided an opportunity to take stock of European cooperation in the economic and commercial field, in the current situation influenced by the current pandemic, also given the common prospects for […]

Read more

Italy-France. Di Stefano: “Teaming up for recovery

Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano received at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Franck Riester, Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attraction of France. The meeting provided an opportunity to take stock of European cooperation in the economic and commercial field, in the current situation influenced by the current pandemic, also given the common prospects for […]

Read more

Nobel, VM Sereni: multiplying efforts against hunger

“The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the World Food Programme is not only the well-deserved recognition of a UN agency that carries out unique and fundamentally important work in every emergency. It is a solicitation for all governments to understand how essential it is, even more so today considering the consequences of Covid19 pandemic, the […]

Read more