Cinema: Landis, Hauer e Collins, Padrini del cinema italiano a Hollywood (in translation)
L’attrice Joan Collins, il regista John Landis hanno accolto a Hollywood la delegazione di artisti volati in California per il VII Los Angeles Italia – Film Fashion and Art Fest, l’ormai classico appuntamento al Chinese Theater che coinvolge lo show business italiano e americano sino alla notte degli Oscar. Grande entusiasmo stanno mostrando i media […]
Read moreUN condemns repression in Syria
With 137 votes in favour, 12 against and 17 abstentions, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution condemning the Bashar al Assad regime’s repression in Syria. After vetoing twice in the Security Council, Russia and China voted against the text presented by Egypt in representation of the Arab countries and 70 other “co-sponsors”. North Korea, […]
Read moreThe Euro-Mediterranean dialogue is relaunched from Rome: the northern and southern Mediterranean countries more closely united to face new challenges
The Euro-Mediterranean dialogue has been relaunched from Rome, spurred by Italy, in a meeting of the 5+5 dialogue forum. The Forum groups together Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Malta from the northern Mediterranean and Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Mauritania from the south. It met in the afternoon session with Egypt, Greece and Turkey in […]
Read moreItaly-Georgia: new commercial trade record: +72,9%
Italy and Georgia have set a new commercial trade record: according to ISTAT, annual growth in the first 10 months of 2011 was up 72.9%, surpassing €183 million, a new high for the January-October period. Italian exports to Georgia went up by 19.8% to €108.8 million, and were led by the sector of machinery and […]
Read moreItaly-Turkey: Amb. Scarante meets with agriculture Min. to strengthen relations
Ambassador of Italy to Turkey Gianpaolo Scarante met on Thursday 16 February with Minister for Turkish Agriculture and Rural Affairs Mehmet Mehdi Eker, with whom he reviewed the broad panorama of Italo-Turkish relations in the farming and food production sector. Minister Eker pointed out the strategic importance of agriculture in the Turkish economy, despite the […]
Read moreMaputo – ENI: gas naturale discovered in Mozambico
ENI has discovered a reserve of approximately 212.5 billion cubic metres of natural gas in the Rovuma basin in northern Mozambique. The discovery, made in the second well sunk by ENI (Mamba North), is in addition to that of October 2011 in the first well (Mamba South), bringing the overall potential for the Mamba complex […]
Read moreNinth conference of the Western Mediterranean Dialogue
The status of regional Mediterranean relations will be the central focus of the ninth foreign ministers conference of the Western Mediterranean Dialogue (5+5), scheduled for Monday 20 February n Rome (Villa Madama), to be enlarged in the afternoon to the FOROMED format. The conference will be co-chaired by Minister Giulio Terzi and his Tunisian colleague […]
Read moreSyria – UN resolution condemning repression – Important sign regarding United Nations and Arab League role, says Terzi
With 137 votes in favour, 12 against and 17 abstentions, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution condemning the Bashar al Assad regime’s repression in Syria. After vetoing twice in the Security Council, Russia and China voted against the text presented by Egypt in representation of the Arab countries and 70 other “co-sponsors”. North Korea, […]
Read moreCooperation: humanitarian aid in Niger and Mali
The Italian Cooperation contributed to the region humanitarian aid programme being run by the CICR in Niger and northern Mali, in concert with the respective Red Cross Societies, on behalf of rural families in a region especially threatened by famine as a result of climate-related conditions. Italy’s contribution to the CICR programme (amounting to approximately […]
Read moreHungary: a Community approach is the best way, says Terzi
A “constructive Community approach” is the “best way” to “resolving eventual internal difficulties among Member Countries” of the EU. This was the Italian position conveyed by Minister Terzi today to his Hungarian counterpart Janos Martonyi in a meeting at the foreign ministry in Rome, during which, among other things, they confronted some hurdles to the […]
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