Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Tajani on mission to Brussels (11-12 December 2022)
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio Tajani, will have a packed agenda of meetings today and tomorrow, 11 and 12 December, in Brussels where he will attend the European Union Foreign Affairs Council as well as other institutional meetings. At the proposal of the President of the […]
Read moreSomalia: a humanitarian flight of the Italian Cooperation Service to meet the Country’s growing humanitarian needs
Today, 11 December, a humanitarian flight of the Italian Cooperation Service departed from the Brindisi-based United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) and landed in Mogadishu with a cargo of approximately 8 tons of surgical and trauma kits. The goods were delivered to the Somalian Ministry of Health to support the response of the Country’s Authorities to […]
Read morePostponement of municipal elections in North Kosovo
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio Tajani, welcomes the decision of Kosovo’s political leaders to postpone the municipal elections of 18 December in 4 Serbian-majority municipalities in the light of the serious situation of uncertainty that has arisen during the past few days. The President of Kosovo, […]
Read moreInternational Human Rights Day
Today, we celebrate the International Human Rights Day. On this same date, seventy-four years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly with the aim, after the horrors of the Second World War, of contributing to the construction of a new international order based on the respect for […]
Read moreTelephone conversations of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation with the President of the Republic of Serbia and the Prime Minister of Kosovo.
In the framework of the action to relaunch Italy’s leading role in the Western Balkans, undertaken by the Government since the first days of its establishment, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio Tajani, had telephone conversations with the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and […]
Read moreFarnesina Secretary-General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, meets with Ukraine’s Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defence, Mykola Tochytskyi and Denys Sharapov
The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, met with Ukrainian Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of Defence, Mykola Tochytskyi and Denys Sharapov, respectively. Talks mainly focused on Italy’s support to Ukraine – which has been confirmed on several occasions by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Deputy […]
Read moreELMED: Italy expresses satisfaction over the approval of the EU funding for the electrical interconnection between Italy and Tunisia
Italy greatly welcomes Brussel’s approval of a sizable European allocation for the implementation of ELMED, the power interconnection project promoted by TERNA and its Tunisian counterpart STEG, providing for a 230 km-long 600 MW connection to Sicily. ELMED will produce a quantum leap in the integration of the electricity markets on the northern and southern […]
Read moreThe Political Directors Small Group Meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS
The Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United States hosted a meeting of political directors from the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS today in The Hague. Political Director Mr. Marcel de Vink of the Netherlands, and Deputy Special Envoy to the Coalition Mr. Ian McCary of the United States, updated partners […]
Read moreSecretary General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, attends the meeting: “Italy Guest Country at Frankfurt 2024” (7 December 2022)
The Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, attended the meeting titled “Italy Guest Country at Frankfurt 2024”. The meeting was organised by the Associazione Italiana Editori (AIE) and curated by Ricardo Franco Levi, President of AIE and the Government’s Special Commissioner for the coordination of activities connected to the participation of Italy […]
Read moreUkraine. New supply of humanitarian goods for the vulnerable population by the Italian Cooperation
A new dispatch of humanitarian supplies by the Italian Cooperation in favour of the Ukrainian population left from the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi and arrived in Chernivtsi in recent days. It allowed the transport and delivery of 9 tonnes of humanitarian aid (including, in particular, winter kits, tents, stoves and blankets), […]
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