Statement by Italy on the release of the first report of the OPCW Investigation and Identification Team on the Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria

Italy welcomes the first report of the OPCW Investigation and Identification Team, and is deeply concerned by its findings on the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Arab Air Force. Italy condemns in the strongest terms all use of chemical weapons – especially against civilians – and calls for those identified responsible to be held accountable […]

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Di Maio: “Pandemic puts Europe’s collective future at risk” (Dpa International)

“Original version published by Dpa International” The Italian foreign minister urges EU unity against the coronavirus threat, defends his government’s response to the epidemic despite a record death toll, and talks about missing being able to hug people. Rome (dpa) – Europe must give an “unequivocal, strong and adequate” response to the coronavirus pandemic, or its future will be at […]

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Yangon: Notes beyond fear, art and beauty go online

“Notes beyond fear / Notes beyond fear” is the initiative launched by the Italian Embassy in Yangon to continue to promote the values of art and beauty at the basis of our common identity, in the only way that is now possible: online. Musicians, composers, actors and singers who have already performed in Myanmar in […]

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Farnesina: no contact with Ieffi ever, we’ll send information to the Public Prosecutor’s Office

With reference to the ongoing investigation against the entrepreneur Antonello Ieffi, arrested on charges of having committed a fraud in a Consip tender for the supply of surgical masks, it should be noted that there has never been any contact of any kind, not even via email, between Mr Ieffi and Foreign Minister Luigi Di […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Al-Safadi

On 9 April 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Al-Safadi.

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Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo Glauk Konjufca

On 8 April 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, Glauk Konjufca.

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Del Re: Covid-19, alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re attended the informal meeting of the Foreign Affairs – Development Council of the European Union, chaired by the High Representative for Foreign Policy, Mr Borrell.  The Vice Minister expressed the Italian support to the Commission’s “European Team Package”, for a cohesive and visible European support to the fight against Covid-19 […]

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Coronavirus, Del Re to the EU: Global Alliance for Vaccine and Universal Immunisation

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re attended the informal meeting of the Foreign Affairs – Development Council of the European Union, chaired by the High Representative for Foreign Policy, Mr Borrell.  The Vice Minister expressed the Italian support to the Commission’s “European Team Package”, for a cohesive and visible European support to the fight against Covid-19 […]

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Export Agreement: sectoral tables with trade associations and companies kicked off

Read Minister Di Maio’ letter to trade associations

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Memoranda of Understanding for the export of beef meat and rice to China

Two Memoranda of Understanding were signed today in Beijing, opening the Chinese market to the export of Italian beef meat and rice. It represented an important step towards overcoming the barriers to the export of Italian agro-food products to China. The Ministry of Agriculture and Health, in close collaboration with the Ministries of Agriculture and […]

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Di Maio: “This is not 2008, Italy will not become the shopping outlet of foreign companies” (Il Sole 24 Ore)

“Italy will not become the shopping outlet of other countries, as in 2008”. At the end of a meeting with the technical-scientific committee, the Prime Minister and Cabinet colleagues, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, assured the business daily Il Sole 24 Ore that in the face of the crisis triggered by the coronavirus, “national strategic […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed El-Taher Hammuda Siala

On 7 April 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah.

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