A busy second day came to an end yesterday for the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, who is in New York to attend the 81st United Nations General Assembly.
At 9.00 am (3.00 pm Italian time), Minister Tajani took part in the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, leading the Italian delegation. At the UN, the Minister had a number of bilateral meetings with foreign counterparts, including the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, the President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Rodolfo Abinader, and the Indian Minister of External Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
In the afternoon, Minister Tajani visited the Italian Consulate-General in New York to meet staff from the Italian consular network in the United States and to visit the exhibition “Enrico Caruso, from Naples to New York” at the Italian Cultural Institute.
Finally, Minister Tajani also met with the Italian community living in New York, the largest in the United States with over 110,000 Italian nationals registered with the consular authorities.
