Minister Di Maio in conversation with Israeli counterpart Ashkenazi

Minister Di Maio had a telephone conversation today with the new Israeli Foreign Minister, Gabi Ashkenazi. Congratulating his colleague on his new position, Minister Di Maio recalled the importance that Italy attaches to Israel’s security in a Middle East crises, tensions and threats. The Ministers agreed on the need to deepen the strategic partnership between […]

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The work of the Foreign Ministry continues: 583 people repatriated today, a total of 107,200.

The Ministry’s efforts to ensure that stranded compatriots all over the world can return home safely are not backtracked. Today alone, more than 580 people returned to Italy through air operations from Morocco, Oman, Kenya, and Niger. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 emergency, the Ministry, thanks to the incessant work of the Crisis Unit, […]

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Di Maio talking with Albanian Prime Minister Rama

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama. The talk focused on the excellent bilateral relations between Italy and Albania. Such synergy was confirmed by the arrival of Albanian doctors in Italy, during critical phases of the pandemic, as well […]

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Mission to France by Minister Luigi Di Maio

Minister Luigi Di Maio is on a mission to France today.  A meeting with is French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian is on the agenda.

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Scientific and Technological Commission meeting Italy-Vietnam

 Today at the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology was held the VII meeting of the Joint Scientific and Technological Commission Italy-Vietnam, the first bilateral meeting “in attendance” after the most acute phase of the Covid-19 emergency.   The meeting examined the state of cooperation between the two countries, which began in 1992 with the […]

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Italy – United Kingdom: Del Re talking with Trevelyan

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re had a videoconference with the UK Secretary of State for International Development, Anne Marie Trevelyan. She highlighted the country’s great commitment to food security and the goal of making full use of FAO, PAM, and IFAD’s mandate to achieve important results, made even more urgent by the pandemic, in this […]

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Italy – United Kingdom: Del Re talking with Trevelyan

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re had a videoconference with the UK Secretary of State for International Development, Anne Marie Trevelyan. She highlighted the country’s great commitment to food security and the goal of making full use of FAO, PAM, and IFAD’s mandate to achieve important results, made even more urgent by the pandemic, in this […]

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Embassy of Nur-Sultan: the “Third Paradise” of Pistoletto

The COVID-19 epidemic does not stop the appreciation of Italian contemporary art in Kazakhstan. A large installation depicting Michelangelo Pistoletto’s “Third Paradise” will be inaugurated in the charming Nurzhol Boulevard in front of the residence of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Nur-Sultan on 5 July 2020, on the occasion of the 21st […]

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Conversation between Minister Luigi Di Maio and the Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had today a telephone conversation with the Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi. Numerous topics were at the centre of the conversation: the Italy-ASEAN relations, the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the strengthening of the economic-commercial exchange. Minister Di Maio stressed that […]

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Note by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Democratic Republic of Congo

60 years after the birth of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy recalls that the peacemaking process in the Est area is still far away. Italy follows with the utmost attention the progressive deterioration of security conditions in the East provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri), where since […]

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Brasilia: “Open Doors at the Embassy”, a virtual tour

The Italian Embassy in Brasilia transforms the traditional cycle of guided tours of its premises into an itinerary made of history, curious information and images on the web. Since 2017, a regular highly anticipated event for the inhabitants of Brasilia is hosted in June: on the occasion of the month celebrating the birth of the […]

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First meeting of the inter-institutional Operating Committee on Italy’s contribution to the prevention of and global response to COVID-19

Today, at the Foreign Ministry, Minister Luigi Di Maio opened the first meeting of the inter-institutional Operating Committee on Italy’s contribution to the prevention of and global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Minister thanked the Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Re, who promoted and chairs the Committee, which includes, among its members, representatives of the […]

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