Minister Di Maio welcomes the agreement reached today to establish the Constitutional Committee on Syria.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio expressed his sincere appreciation overr the agreement reached between the government of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Syrian Negotiations Commission regarding the establishment of the Syrian Constitutional Committee as announced today by UN Secretary-General Guterres.  This is an important first step to launch […]

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Minister Di Maio meets with the Foreign Minister of Tunisia, Khemaies Jhinaoui

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a cordial meeting with his Tunisian counterpart, Khemaies Jhinaoui, on the sidelines of today’s 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly. “With my Tunisian colleague we discussed the principal regional dossiers, starting with the Libyan crisis and its fallout in terms of instability […]

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Minister Di Maio meets with the Director General of the IOM, António Vitorino

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met with the Director General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), António Vitorino, on the sidelines of the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York. The meeting offered the opportunity to reaffirm Italy’s support to the IOM as a decisive partner in […]

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Today in New York, on the sidelines of the UNGA, Deputy Foreign Minister Emanuela Del Re attended an event on universal health coverage

Today in New York, on the sidelines of the 74th United Nations General Assembly, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Emanuela Del Re, attended an event on universal health coverage along with the representatives of the other 193 UN Member States. The aim of the Meeting, which closed with the adoption of […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy 23 September: latest news from the world

Colombia: new law on electric mobility The President of the Republic Duque, in conjunction with the Ministers of Transport, Energy and the Environment, presented the national strategy for electric and sustainable mobility, which will be instrumental in reducing, starting already from the next two years, two of the major problems that characterize all the main […]

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Press accreditation note – Presentation of the first Guide-book to Italian Roots (Farnesina, 25 September 2019)

The first Guide-book to Italian Roots will be presented at an event at the Farnesina on Wednesday 25 September 2019, at 4.00 pm. In this first edition, the Guide-book – created by the Directorate General for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the Italian Raiz Association – […]

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‘Arcipelago Italia’ at the Gothenburg Book Fair

Arcipelago Italia, is the name of the booth with which this year, from 26 to 29 September, the Italian Cultural Institute of Stockholm will participate in the Gothenburg Book Fair, the most important Scandinavian event dedicated to publishing. In collaboration with the Italian Embassy, ​​ICE and ENIT, Arcipelago Italia intends to present a series of […]

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Italy at the Luanda Biennale

Italy participated in the first “Biennale of Luanda: Pan-African Forum for the Culture of Peace”, promoted by UNESCO in partnership with the African Union and the Government of Angola. The aim of the event was to contribute to the promotion of the “culture of peace” in Africa. The Forum was attended by 12 African countries […]

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Di Maio’s reply to Orban

No unnecessary interference​Orban should avoid unnecessary interference. I will not allow anyone to judge or attack Italy, least of all those who act like sovereignists when it comes to our borders. Orban does not know the Italian people, so he should talk about his people, if he wishes to do so, not about ours “. […]

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Italy’s Economic Diplomacy, 20 September: latest news from the world

Thailand: Government approves a set of new incentives to attract investment ​The Thai Government recently approved a set of new incentives, known as the ‘Thailand Plus Package’, aimed at attracting more foreign investment in cutting-edge technologies. Thailand intends to enhance its attractiveness as a privileged location for productive investments that in turn would allow the nation to rank among the high-income […]

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Humanitarian flight – four Libyan paediatric patients arrive in Rome

Following an initiative promoted by Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, and as a result of the cooperation  between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Minister of Defence, a humanitarian operation was accomplished today with the arrival in Italy of a first group of four Libyan […]

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Competences to define the commercial and promotional strategies and policies with foreign countries and encourage the internationalization of Italy’s cultural and economic system

The decree-law approved today by the Council of Ministers on the reorganization of the competences of some Ministries, transfers to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation the power to define the commercial and promotional strategies and policies with foreign countries and the development of the internationalization of Italy’s cultural and economic system. Besides […]

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