The Ministry of Foreign Affairs intends “to contribute to the economic recovery and consolidation” of the country, which is the government’s top “priority”, and to do so, first and foremost, through the “internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises”, a mission that will be shared with the Ministries of Economic Development and of Foreign Trade, announced Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino in her on MFA planning report before the joint foreign commissions of the Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament.
Diplomacy for growth
Within a vision of “diplomacy for growth”, the minister added, “we are obliged to sustain the trend in our foreign exports”, which “rose by 3.5% in 2012”.
