TURKEY : Green light for EU negotiations, to Bonino’s satisfaction
The European Union’s ministers for European affairs have decided to open regional policy negotiations, starting in October. Bonino: “We’ve avoided a stalemate. I’ve spoken to Davutoglu and we’ll see what Ankara does”. “There is now a chance we can avert the risk of stalemate, and that’s a cause for satisfaction”. This was Foreign Minister Emma […]
Read moreSYRIA – Bonino visits refugee camp in Jordan
With the European Commission for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, Kristalina Georgieva, Foreign Minister Emma Bonino is visiting the Al Zaatari camp in north Jordan. The camp accommodates about 150,000 people who have fled the fighting in Syria. The aim of the visit is to see at first hand the conditions of the Syrian refugees […]
Read moreAfrica: 1.5 million euros from Italy for women and young people
Italian Development Cooperation is supporting women and young people in Kenya and South Sudan’s most marginalised regions. They will be the beneficiaries of the new development project worth 1.5 million euros as part of an agreement signed in Rome by the Director General for Development Cooperation, Giampaolo Cantini, and his colleague from the United Nations […]
Read moreItaly-Russia: Dassù in Moscow – “2+2” meeting planned in Rome on 6 August
The Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marta Dassù, has had a long meeting in Moscow with her Russian colleague, Deputy Minister Aleksey Meshkov. They discussed bilateral issues and EU-Russian relations. “2+2” meeting in Rome on 6 August As a follow-up to the recent talks between Foreign Ministers Bonino and Lavrov, the two Deputy Ministers agreed […]
Read moreSyria – Bonino at Foreign Affairs Council – “Political solution the only way”. Visit to Jordan for refugee emergency
“The only solution to the Syrian crisis is the political solution”, as Foreign Minister Emma Bonino underscored at the end of the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg. The “Geneva 2” peace conference is the only way, as the Minister reiterated at the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Doha on Saturday 22 June. And the conference […]
Read moreRUSSIA – Dassù presenta l’Expo di Milano (in translation)
Un’ Expo “di nuovo genere”, con al centro un tema come la sicurezza alimentare, cruciale per lo sviluppo sostenibile, e con grande attenzione al ruolo delle donne: cosi’ il viceministro Marta Dassu’ ha presentato al Forum economico internazionale di San Pietroburgo la prossima esposizione di Milano 2015. Un’expo di nuovo genere “Prima di tutto ho ringraziato la […]
Read moreBEIJING – Promoting Tuscany in China through thematic ‘passport’
A thematic “passport” to promote Tuscany in China: the initiative of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi was presented at the Italian Cultural Institute of Beijing, and is the result from a collaborative effort between the Region of Tuscany and Tuscany Promotion begun in 2011. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreEU Foreign Affairs Council – Syria: Geneva II the only way, says Bonino. Bilateral with Ashton
The European foreign ministers will be focusing today on the Syrian dossier, which will be among principal agenda items that include the Middle East, Afghanistan and Turkey, during the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg, where Minister Emma Bonino will be representing Italy. Syria: maximum support for opposition Syria is an item on which Minister Bonino […]
Read moreGUATEMALA – A docufilm in Turin on youth orchestras
The youth orchestras of Guatemala take centre stage in the docufilm “Cuento Musical”, which was screened on Friday at Turin’s Auditorium Quazza – Palazzo Nuovo. The main thrust of the film, directed by Stefano Scialotti and sponsored by the Guatemala City government with the support of the Italian Cooperation and the UNDP, is the use […]
Read moreBonino in Doha – Ministerial Meeting of Friends of Syria
The delicate identification of a common terrain to bring to what is being called the Geneva II Conference, and the coordination and presumable strengthening of international support for the opposition to Bashar Al Assad’s government, will be the main topics of discussion at one of the most important thus far of the ministerial meetings of […]
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