Minister Di Maio meets with the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, today met with the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Ambassador Geir Pedersen, on the fringes of the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York. At the talks, Minister Di Maio shared his updated evaluation on the state of the Syrian crisis. In this […]

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Minister Di Maio meets with the American Jewish Organisations

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met with the American Jewish Organisations in New York on the fringes of his visit to attend the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly.   Minister Di Maio emphasised how Italy is in the forefront in combating racism and racial discrimination, xenophobia, intolerance […]

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Minister Di Maio meets with the Foreign Minister of Qatar, Mohammed Al Thani

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met with his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani, on the sidelines of the 74th United Nations General Assembly.   Several topics were high on the meeting’s agenda such as trade relations, international investments and the crises in Libya and in the Persian Gulf. […]

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Minister Di Maio meets with the French Foreign Minister Le Drian​

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a constructive and cordial meeting with the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, on the fringes of the UNGA. The meeting’s intense agenda focused on the two Countries’ bilateral and European relations and especially dwelt on Libya. Special attention was also placed on […]

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Comunicato stampa “Uniting for Consensus”

Ministers of the Countries belonging to the “Uniting for Consensus” Group held a meeting in New York today to assess the state of the UN Security Council reform process. The last rounds of negotiations that took place in 2019, confirmed the existence of growing areas of convergence as also the persistence of diverging views on […]

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​Serbia: Italy partners with Serbia also in the production of wind energy

The opening of a wind farm built through the partnership between an Italian company and Košava in Izbište (Vojvodina) offered the opportunity to take stock of the economic cooperation existing between Italy and Serbia. “Our partnership,” said the Italian Ambassador in Belgrade, Carlo Lo Cascio, “is now extending to renewable energy sources and, in addition […]

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Teheran: the façade of the residence of the Italian Ambassador becomes the backdrop for street artists

Two street artists, one Italian and one Iranian, will exhibit on the façade of the residence of the Italian Ambassador in Teheran for a year. This project, called “Urban Art Unites”, opened with the work of Paolo Bordino (known as PAO) and the Iranian Mehdi Ghadyanloo, who is the author of many murals in Teheran. […]

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Minister Di Maio meets with the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wang Yi

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met with the State Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Yi, on the fringes of the 74th session of United Nations General Assembly in New York. The meeting reaffirmed the excellent state of the bilateral relations between […]

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Deputy Foreign Minister Del Re at the Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)

Today the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, attended the Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) at the United Nations Building in New York. In her address, the Deputy Foreign Minister reaffirmed that the CTBT is a strategic priority for Italy, representing a […]

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Presentation of the first volume of the guidebook Guida alle Radici Italiane

The guidebook Guida alle Radici italiane, whose first volume was presented at the Farnesina, is addressed to the new generations of the six million Italians living abroad and to the nearly 60-80 million people of Italian descent who are scattered across the world: an audience that is very different from the traditional readership of  Italian tourist […]

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Minister Di Maio co-chairs the high-level event on Somalia in New York

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, chaired the high-event meeting on Somalia together with Somalia’s President, Farmajo, Ethiopia’s President, Sahle-Uork Zeudè and the US Undersecretary of State, Hale. The meeting was attended by the Chairperson of the African Commission of the African Union, Moussa Faki, by the most important donors […]

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Minister Di Maio meets the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, in New York on the sidelines of the 74th General Assembly of the UN. The Minister reiterated Italy’s position as priority partner of the UN High Commissioner (UNHCR) in assisting refugees in the […]

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