Vice Minister Del Re presides over an emergency meeting in Lebanon with Italian CSOs.

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Emanuela C. Del Re chaired today a meeting on the Lebanon emergency in a video conference with representatives of Italian civil society organizations (CSOs). The meeting took stock of the response to the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon following the tragic explosion in the port of Beirut on […]

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IIC Toronto: a webinar on Raphael and Paolo Veronese

The Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C., presents On the Footsteps of the Genius: Raphael and Paolo Veronese, (Sulle orme del genio: Raffaello e Paolo Veronese) an online conference by Thomas Dalla Costa, Curatorial Fellow of the […]

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Agreement on normalisation of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates

Italy welcomes the announcement of the agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. We hope that this important step will contribute to peace and stability in the Middle East. In this framework, the Israeli decision to suspend the annexation of portions of the West Bank is a positive development, which we […]

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Scalfarotto: concern about situation in Belarus

“We express all our concern and associate ourselves with the appeals of the President of the European Parliament, Mr Sassoli, and High Representative Borrell on the situation in Belarus,” said Undersecretary Scalfarotto on the eve of the extraordinary Council of EU Foreign Ministers convened for tomorrow. “The Government’s repression must be stopped immediately and the […]

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Scalfarotto: concern about the situation in Belarus

“We express all our concern and associate ourselves with the appeals of the President of the European Parliament, Mr Sassoli, and High Representative Borrell on the situation in Belarus,” said Undersecretary Scalfarotto on the eve of the extraordinary Council of EU Foreign Ministers convened for tomorrow. “The Government’s repression must be stopped immediately and the […]

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Telephone interview of Minister Di Maio with Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio had a telephone conversation with the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, on the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Minister reiterated the need for all parties to maintain a moderate and cooperative approach to reduce tensions and resolve outstanding issues. In this […]

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Scalfarotto: satisfaction with USTR decision on duties

Undersecretary Scalfarotto expressed great satisfaction for the decision of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) not to add any additional duty to Italian products as part of the six-monthly review of the measures adopted in implementation of the WTO ruling on Airbus subsidies, providing for increases only for specific categories of goods from France and […]

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Sereni: “Italy is ready to support the rebirth of Lebanon. These are the three challenges Beirut has to face”. (Il Foglio)

With the resignation of the Diab government in Lebanon, the dramatic interweaving of three emergencies has become very evident: humanitarian, economic-social and political. On a humanitarian level, the terrible explosion on 4 August in the port of Beirut plunged hundreds of dead, thousands injured and the enormous destruction of the city. This situation was already […]

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Scalfarotto: satisfaction for United States Trade Representative decision not to add new duties to Italian products.

Undersecretary Scalfarotto expressed great satisfaction for the decision of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) not to add any additional duty to Italian products as part of the six-monthly review of the measures adopted in implementation of the WTO ruling on Airbus subsidies, providing for increases only for specific categories of goods from France and […]

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Del Re: “Lebanon is facing its own destiny” (Limes)

A terrible explosion in the harbour of Lebanon’s port city of Beirut, Hangar 12, led to massive destruction. However, it is not only the saddest figures of the tragedy – one hundred and sixty dead, more than six thousand injured, over three hundred thousand people displaced – as well as the destruction of the port […]

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs: freed Italian journalist apprehended in Belarus

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that the Italian freelance journalist stopped by the Belarusian authorities in recent days has been released and is now at the Italian Embassy in Minsk.

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Lebanon: a humanitarian flight to Beirut

An Air Force flight took off this morning from Pisa to Beirut. The flight was loaded last night at the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi of about 2.4 tons of medical equipment (hygiene kits) made available by the Italian Cooperation to deal with the health emergency in Lebanon and the growing spread […]

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