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Press Releases
17 May 2017
Niger. Alfano: “Italy makes an emergency contribution to UNICEF to provide food assistance to children”​

“Through the Italian Cooperation service, we have arranged to contribute 400,000 euros to UNICEF in response to the dramatic humanitarian emergency in Niger, to provide food assistance to children,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano. “In Niger, the humanitarian emergency is made all the more complex by the overlapping of […]

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Press Releases
12 May 2017
Alfano: great satisfaction over the return of Cristian Provvisionato to Italy

“Cristian Provvisionato is free and on his way back to Italy together with Undersecretary of State Vincenzo Amendola. I wish to express my great satisfaction at the release and return of our compatriot to Italy. I spoke with him over the phone and he sounded excited and happy to return home,” said the Minister of […]

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Press Releases
9 May 2017
Information note on Mr Cristian Provvisionato

The Foreign Ministry informs that last 26 of April the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, received Ms Doina Corman, the mother of Cristian Provvisionato, to reaffirm his utmost commitment to reach a prompt solution of the case.   The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in close cooperation with the Italian Embassy in […]

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Press Releases
8 May 2017
Alfano: “The upcoming reopening to the public of the IsIAO Library is an important fruit of the cooperation between the Foreign Ministry and the MiBACT”

“I am very happy that within the context of the 9th edition of “Farnesina Porte Aperte” (“Farnesina Open Doors”), more than 6 years after the closing of the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO), the Institute’s prestigious library will reopen to the public on the premises of the National Central Library of Rome,” said […]

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Interviews
27 April 2017
Giro:«La soluzione è la cooperazione con l’Africa» (Avvenire)

È il principio dei vasi comunicanti applicato in chiave migratoria. Di fronte a un ostacolo, il flusso prende nuove direzioni. È quanto sta accadendo nel Sahel. Dato il rafforzamento delle frontiere del Niger, il Ciad è diventato una rotta emergente nell’esodo verso il Nord e, da lì, alle coste europee, per migliaia e migliaia di […]

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Accreditation Notices
25 April 2017
Conference “Sixty years and beyond: contributing to development cooperation” (Farnesina, 27 April 2017)

On Thursday, 27 April 2017, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the Farnesina will hold the conference entitled “Sixty years and beyond: contributing to development cooperation”, a high-level meeting on development cooperation within the European Union. The Conference will open with remarks by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, and by the EU Commissioner for International Development and Cooperation, […]

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Interviews
25 March 2017
“Challenge facing Italian cooperation. Our priority is Africa” (by minister Alfano)

Angelino Alfano, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has reflected on the challenges that lie ahead for Italian cooperation. Setting aside political current affairs, the crazy attack on Westminster, the terrorism emergency, the Treaties of Rome, the minister spoke for 40 minutes about what the goals of the next three-year period will be. He […]

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In detail
23 March 2017
Maputo hosts the exhibition “Ever Closer Union”

The exhibition titled “Ever Closer Union”  was inaugurated on 21 March in Maputo to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the signing of the Rome Treaties in the world. The exhibition was organized by the Italian Embassy to Mozambique at “Spazio Italia”, the Italian Trade Agency’s showroom. It is scheduled to run until 21 April next. Ambassador Marco […]

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