Minister Alfano participated in the 2nd Session of the Strategic Dialogue with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates
Minister Alfano received at the Farnesina his colleague, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is in Italy to attended the 2nd session of the Strategic Dialogue between the two Ministries of Foreign Affairs. Bilateral relations, the Libyan crisis and the current crisis in the Gulf were on the meeting’s agenda.
Cooperation on schools and in the field of higher education, as well as cultural relations were high among the meeting’s important themes. They talked about a project to build an international Italian school in Abu Dhabi and the planned opening of an Italian Cultural Institute in the capital city of the UAE.
The meeting focused on economic matters as well. In particular, on the Italian participation at Expo Dubai 2020 and on the meeting of the Sixth Joint Economic Committee (co-chaired by the Ministers of Economic Development), which is scheduled to take place in the UAE on 30 and 31 October 2017.