Belarus: deep concern about the suppression of key civil rights and fundamental democratic freedoms

The wave of indiscriminate arrests over the last two days in Minsk, as well as the suppression of key civil rights and fundamental democratic freedoms, including the press, give rise to the deepest concern. These serious developments also followed an election which, according to many observers, not only local, has disappointed the expectations placed on […]

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The Italian Ambassador in Beirut delivers Italian aid to Lebanon

Tomorrow at 9 a.m. an air force plane will take off from Pisa and land in Beirut. It will transport aid donated by Cooperazione 6 for the Lebanese population victims of the explosion that hit Beirut last Tuesday. These are first aid kits and hygienic-sanitary material that will be delivered to the Lebanese authorities by […]

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IIC Montevideo, an event dedicated to Caravaggio

The Italian Cultural Institute in Montevideo organises a special event dedicated to Caravaggio, with a conference and the screening of a documentary dedicated to the great painter.  On Thursday 13th at 7 pm Montevideo time (midnight on Friday in Italy), Emma Sanguinetti, art history specialist will give the lecture Caravaggio, luces y sombras de un […]

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Del Re at UN videoconference on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re spoke at the video conference organised by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon. The meeting was chaired by Mark Lowcock, Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and introduced by Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Najat Rochdi, UN Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident […]

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Vice Minister Del Re intervenes at the videoconference on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re spoke at the video conference organised by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon. The meeting was chaired by Mark Lowcock, Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and introduced by Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Najat Rochdi, UN Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident […]

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Telephone interview of Minister Di Maio with UN Secretary-General Guterres

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had today a telephone conversation with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, with whom he addressed the case of Mario Paciolla. The Minister expressed the strong Italian expectation that the competent Colombian authorities can continue to count on the full cooperation of […]

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IIC Budapest: Tina Modotti’s exhibition reopens

On August 11th the famous Italian photographer Tina Modotti’s photographic exhibition reopens at the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest. The exhibition consists of a selection of photographs taken in Mexico between 1923 and 1927 that shed light on everyday life in the Mexican countryside in the 1920s through the photographer’s realistic eye. After the forced […]

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Commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the Marcinelle disaster (8th August) – Message from Minister Di Maio

Dear compatriots, on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the Marcinelle tragedy in Belgium, I would like to recall the 262 miners who lost their lives in the Bois du Cazier on 8th August 1956: among them, 136 were Italian. Since 2001, Italy has commemorated with the ” National Day of Italian Labour Sacrifices in […]

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Italo-Algerian talks on bilateral cooperation in the field of technological and digital innovation

Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano met today at the Foreign Ministry, together with Minister for Technological Innovation and Digitisation Paola Pisano, Algerian Minister in charge of Knowledge Economy and Start-ups Yacine El-Mahdi Oualid and Algerian Minister in charge of Microenterprises Nassim Diafat. The meeting was a valuable opportunity to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the field of […]

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Meeting between Minister Luigi Di Maio and Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud

Today the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met with the Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, at the Foreign Ministry.  During the cordial meeting, the two Ministers examined the state of bilateral cooperation and reaffirmed their intention to further deepen relations in every area of […]

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Information note – Informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the European Union (Gymnich) – Berlin, 27 and 28 August 2020

In the context of the German Presidency of the European Union, we inform you that the informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the European Union (Gymnich) will take place in Berlin (Germany) from 27 to 28 August 2020. Representatives of the media interested can register online at www.akkreditierung.bundesregierung.de by Wednesday, 19 August 2020. Please […]

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Ms Del Re, conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cabo Verde

Yesterday Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re had an conversation with the Foreign Minister of Cape Verde, Luis Filipe Tavares. The focus of the conversation – in addition to bilateral relations and cooperation between the two countries – was an update on compatriot David Solazzo’s death. The two interlocutors expressed satisfaction with the excellent level of […]

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