Farnesina: Under-Secretary Della Vedova closes conference on Western Balkans
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs BenedettoDella Vedova delivered the closing address at today’s Western Balkans conference organised by the NATO Defence College Foundation, the Delegation for the Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU and the Balkan Trust for Democracy. Speakers at the four conference sessions (regional cooperation, Serbian-Kosovo relations, the Western Balkans’ European and […]
Read moreFarnesina: presentato il Rapporto Ance 2014 – Comunicato congiunto
Ben 17 miliardi di euro di commesse acquisite all’estero nell’ultimo anno dalle imprese italiane di costruzione. Un risultato importante che porta le costruzioni italiane al nono anno consecutivo di crescita di fatturato oltreconfine: +8,6%. Un valore che dal 2004 al 2013 è più che triplicato (+206%) passando da poco più di 3 a oltre 9,5 […]
Read moreFarnesina: presentato il Rapporto Ance 2014 – Comunicato congiunto
Italian construction firms were awarded a full 17 billion euro in foreign contracts over the past year, making 2013 the ninth consecutive growth year on foreign markets: + 8.6%. Turnover from 2004 through 2013 has tripled (+206%) from 3 to over 9.5 billion euro, and currently represents 60% of the total. The data emerged […]
Read moreAzerbaijan: Della Vedova attends Baku Forum. Freedom and Rights must complement globalisation
At the invitation of the Azerbaijani Government, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Benedetto Della Vedova, spoke today at a round table on “Challenges of Globalisation: between tradition and transformation”. “Globalisation has a economic dimension that is clear but which must be complemented in the sphere of freedom and individual rights. Each country enters the globalisation […]
Read moreM.O.: Farnesina, nuovi insediamenti Gerusalemme ostacolo su via pace
La decisione israeliana di costruire 2160 abitazioni a Givat Hamatos, nell’area di Gerusalemme, è un ostacolo di fronte agli sforzi per arrivare a una soluzione definitiva di un conflitto che ha già condizionato, quando non spezzato, la vita di troppe generazioni. È un provvedimento che appare incompatibile con la volontà, più volte ribadita dal governo […]
Read moreM.O.: Farnesina, nuovi insediamenti Gerusalemme ostacolo su via pace
Israel’s decision to build 2160 homes at Givat Hamatos, near Jerusalem, is an obstacle to the efforts to reach a definitive solution to a conflict that has already affected, if not broken, the lives of too many generations. It is a provision that appears incompatible with the Israeli Government’s several times reiterated intention to reach […]
Read moreThe UN and the world’s water resources: Italy-UNESCO collaboration
The work of the United National Nations World Water Assessment Programme (UN WWAP) will be illustrated tomorrow, 3 October 2014, at the Chamber of Deputies in Rome. The UN’s World Water Development Report 2014, Water and Energy, will be presented during the event. Those attending the event, organised at the initiative of the Under-Secretary for […]
Read moreUNESCO Forum, Florence. “In a world that seems to be degenerating into extremism or crises, the escape routes from the idea of an inevitable clash and decline are culture and creativity”, says Under-Secretary Giro
“We must never forget that the places of creative production, places that cradle the meaning of a community, are important to development. They are the places where today’s reality, difficult, crisis-ridden and violent as it may be, can be transformed in the imagined future”. This was the comment by Under-Secretary Mario Giro, speaking at the […]
Read moreItaly-Azerbaijan: Della Vedova meets Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister in Baku
The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Benedetto Della Vedova, met the Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Khalav Khalafov, in Baku today. Their friendly discussion focused on developing the strategic partnership opened by Prime Minister Renzi and the Azerbaijani President, Aliyev, in Rome in July 2014. “Building on our very important and well-established relationship in the energy […]
Read moreIran: Mogherini, appello madre Reyhaneh sia ascoltato anche in Iran
Il ministro degli Esteri, Federica Mogherini, ha assicurato il suo impegno per il caso di Reyhaneh Jabbari, la giovane iraniana condannata a morte. “L’appello della madre di Reyhaneh non può lasciarci indifferenti”, ha detto. “L’Italia è per tradizione contraria alla pena di morte e per questo ci stiamo battendo da tempo anche alle Nazioni Unite. […]
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