Deputy Minister Di Stefano participates in the Italy-ASEAN Joint Committee
“Today we lay the foundations for a bright future of friendship and cooperation between Italy and ASEAN”. This morning Deputy Minister Manlio Di Stefano has opened the Italy-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Joint Committee. It is the first meeting since the launch of the Development Partnership between Italy and the regional organisation in September 2020. In the […]
Read moreDella Vedova: italian action to defend human rights in Myanmar
Deputy Minister Benedetto Della Vedova participated in the online event “Myanmar. National and international actions for a new democratic and federal country”, organized by East-West European Institute, Italia-Birmania Insieme Association and Torino World Affairs Institute. “Italy strongly supports a united front in all international fora to demand the immediate release of all those arbitrarily detained, […]
Read moreThe IDEAS Project, Italian Dialogues on Excellence, Arts and Science
IDEAS is the acronym of “Italian Dialogues on Excellence, Arts and Science”, an original project conceived and produced by the Foreign Ministry’s Directorate General for Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation and consisting in a series of documentary portraits of Italy as a virtuous, dynamic, polycentric country. The first season of the series consists of five […]
Read moreCulture: Deputy Minister Della Vedova, the Italian language is our soft power. Dante.Global is a fundamental tool
Today, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Benedetto Della Vedova, has spoken at the inauguration ceremony of the “Dante.Global” digital platform, in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella. The platform has been designed and created, in partnership with the Foreign Ministry, by the “Dante Alighieri” Society, chaired […]
Read moreDeputy Minister Della Vedova in the Steering Committee on human trafficking
Today, Deputy Minister Benedetto Della Vedova took part in the meeting of the Steering Committee on combating trafficking and serious exploitation, presided over by the Minister of Equal Opportunities and Family, Elena Bonetti. The aim of the Steering Committee is to draw up guidelines for programming and financing actions to prevent and combat human trafficking, […]
Read moreSereni: FAO, Food Coalition’s contribution to the G20
“Exactly one year ago, Italy launched the Food Coalition, with the idea of not only proposing a new way to respond to the pandemic, to prevent the health crisis from turning into a food crisis, but especially of building a global coalition to reach the Zero Hunger goal and build a resilient and sustainable post-pandemic […]
Read moreLe Nazioni Unite di fronte alle Nuove Sfide Economico-Sociali: convegno online
La Vice Ministra degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Marina Sereni, interverrà alla Conferenza “Le Nazioni Unite di fronte alle nuove sfide economico sociali 75 anni dopo la loro fondazione” che si svolgerà in formato virtuale dall’Università degli Studi di Torino il 15 e 16 aprile 2021. Si tratta del terzo dei quattro convegni organizzati dalla SIOI, d’intesa con […]
Read moreSereni meets with CEPI CEO, focus on combating COVID-19
Meeting today via videoconference between Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Marina Sereni and Richard Hatchett, CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), launched in 2017 at the World Economic Forum in Davos in the wake of the Ebola crisis and currently active in the COVID-19 fight. “The Coalition has played an important role […]
Read moreDi Stefano speaks at the webinar on “Malaysia-Italy Cooperation on Cybersecurity”
Deputy Minister Manlio Di Stefano spoke this morning at the opening of the webinar on “Malaysia-Italy Cooperation on Cybersecurity: Shaping a New Strategic Partnership”, organised in virtual mode by the Foreign Ministry, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, and ICE Agency. The webinar was attended by representatives of the Malaysian government agencies […]
Read moreDeputy Minister Della Vedova presents the Award for Italian and German municipalities
Today, in a video invitation to Italian and German municipalities united by twinning or partnerships, Deputy Minister Benedetto Della Vedova has presented the “Presidents’ Award for municipal cooperation between Germany and Italy”. The Award, promoted by the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has been created to support municipal cooperation projects that […]
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