Foreign Minister Di Maio meets with his Lebanese counterpart, Gebran Bassil

During his visit to Lebanon, Foreign Minister Di Maio meets with the Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gebran Bassil.​ The talks focused on the traditional long-standing friendship and deep ties between Italy and Lebanon.   The Minister reaffirmed Italy’s support to Lebanon through its contribution to UNIFIL, the support to the Lebanese Armed Forces, cooperation programmes and […]

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Minister Luigi Di Maio on a diplomatic mission to Lebanon

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, is in Beirut, Lebanon, today on a diplomatic mission that will include a greeting to the Italian troops deployed in the UNIFIL mission in southern Lebanon. During his visit, Minister Di Maio will meet with his Lebanese counterpart, the outgoing Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil. […]

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Minister Luigi Di Maio on a diplomatic mission to Lebanon

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, is in Beirut, Lebanon, today on a diplomatic mission that will include a greeting to the Italian troops deployed in the UNIFIL mission in southern Lebanon. During his visit, Minister Di Maio will meet with his Lebanese counterpart, the outgoing Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil. […]

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8th Meeting of the Situation Room for Italy’s Internationalisation

The 8th meeting of the Situation Room for Italy’s Internationalisation, chaired jointly by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, and by the Minister of Economic Development, Stefano Patuanelli, is being held today at the Farnesina. The Situation Room for Italy’s Internationalisation, is an exercise aimed at defining the resources, guidelines and strategic policy […]

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8th Meeting of the Situation Room for Italy’s Internationalisation

Greater attention and proximity to the territory, increase in the number of Italian exporting companies, investments in communication and digital commercial channels, focus on innovation and sustainability, and consolidation of our market share in the sectors of excellence of our exports are some of the main objectives established by the Situation Room for Italy’s Internationalisation […]

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Minister Di Maio met with his Singapore counterpart, Vivian Balakrishnan

Minister di Maio met with Singapore’s foreign affairs minister Balakrishnan at the Farnesina today. The meeting focused on the relations of the two countries with special attention to economic cooperation, investment promotion and innovation, Eurasian connectivity and the relations between Italy and ASEAN. ​  

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Press accreditation note – Meeting of the 8th Situation Room for Internationalisation (Farnesina, 20 September 2019)

The Meeting of the 8th Situation Room for Internationalisation will be held on ​Friday, December 20, 2019, from 4.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., at the Farnesina. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, and the Minister of Economic Development, Stefano Patuanelli will deliver the opening addresses, followed by the contributions by Teresa Bellanova, […]

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Sao Paulo: M° Veronesi in concert with the Heliopolis Symphony Orchestra

The Heliopolis Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Alberto Veronesi and the voices of Paoletta Marrocu and Amadi Lagha were the stars of the traditional Christmas Concert organised by the Italian Consulate General at the Municipal Theatre of Sao Paulo. The Theatre recorded a full house with 1,500 spectators who appreciated the decision to combine great Italian professionals […]

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Buenos Aires: on show the exhibition Italy: the Beauty of Knowledge

For three weeks, the Kirchner Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires hosted the exhibition “Italy: the Beauty of Knowledge”, promoted and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and designed by the National Research Council together with Italy’s four major science museums:   the City of Science in Naples, the Muse in Trento, the […]

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Central European Initiative (CEI) Summit Meeting of the Heads of Government

The Central European Initiative (CEI) Summit Meeting of the Heads of Government is taking place at the Farnesina. The meeting is chaired by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte alongside the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Marina Sereni. Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, North Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Czech […]

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Di Maio: «On Libya we need realism. Italy does not take sides in this war» (la Repubblica)

Minister Di Maio, you admitted that we have lost our role in Libya. We have disappeared from Tripoli for eight months. They must be upset. «I won’t hide the fact that we must make up for it and we have to do it through a concrete and more realistic approach to the situation on the […]

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Di Maio and Guterres in Brindisi for the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Global Service Center (UNGSC)

Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, together with the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, will attend the ceremony of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Global Service Center (UNGSC) in Brindisi. The UNGSC is the facility that provides logistics, geospatial intelligence, IT and Telecommunication services to all UN operations, and […]

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