Africa

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27 May 2014

Africa Day – Science cooperation for sustainable development

The foreign ministry held its traditional Africa Day today, and annual event that this year coincided with the 41st anniversary of creation of the Organisation of Africa Unity, which became the African Union in 2002.Minister Mogherini gave the opening speech and Under-Secretary Mario Giro closed the event. Invited guests included the Mission Heads of the […]

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Press Releases

21 May 2014

Sud Sudan: Italia stanzia altri 3,5 mln di euro per interventi emergenza

Italy announced at a conference of South Sudan donors in Oslo that it would earmark an additional 3.5 million euro, as per a decision by Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini. The funds will go to emergency interventions as follows: 1.5 million to Italian NGOs and 2 million to multilateral Unite National agencies operating in […]

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21 May 2014

Libreville – ‘Muccino’s ‘Baciami ancora’ opens Gabon Film Festival

Italian director Gabriele Muccino’s “Baciami ancora” opened the “La Semaine du Cinema Europeen” in the capital of Gabon, a film festival organised by the Italian embassy in Libreville together with the French, German and Spanish diplomatic missions and the EU delegation. Read more, in Italian.

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19 May 2014

System Italy in Mozambique – Highly important business mission

From 19 to 21 May System Italy will make a business trip to Mozambique that promises to be one of exceptional importance. The delegation, led by Deputy Minister for Economic Development Carlo Calenda, will include the participation of 82 businesses, 6 professional associations and 5 banks. One of Italy’s most important missions to Sub-Saharan Africa […]

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Press Releases

19 May 2014

Libya: Embassy in contact with Italians in Tripoli

The Italian embassy in Tripoli contacted all Italian nationals in the Libyan capital in order to ensure all forms of assistance in consideration of the situation resulting from the armed skirmishes of recent hours

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Interviews

17 May 2014

Mogherini: «Ban Ki-moon la aiuterà. Pronto a compiere ogni passo per Meriam»

«Meriam è una mamma…Ecco, continuo a pensare a questo: Meriam è una mamma, come io sono una mamma. Continuo a pensare al piccolo che porta in grembo e all’ altro bambino che ora è in carcere con lei. Continuo a pensare a questa vicenda così atroce… A questa ragazza del Sudan così giovane, così coraggiosa, […]

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16 May 2014

Mogherini at the UN: discussion with Ban Ki-moon – Talk at “Council on Foreign Relations”

The campaign against the death penalty will be one of the priorities of the Italian Presidency of the European Union, which starts on 1 July 2014. The point was made by Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, one of the USA’s most distinguished think tanks. The topic was […]

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12 May 2014

Mogherini at EU Foreign Affairs Council – Ukraine: priority is to halt the violence. Support for OSCE roadmap

“Europe’s priority is to ensure that the violence on the ground is reined in and brought to an end”. These were the words of Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini on her arrival in Brussels for the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council. She defined this goal as “the lodestar of our work today. We shall continue to […]

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8 May 2014

Nigeria – EU coordination for girls’ release, urges Mogherini

Proposal to be formalised at Monday’s Foreign Affairs Council: coordination needed, not a leading role for any one country “Our interest is not so much seeing any one country play a leading role, but results: the release of the girls abducted in Nigeria”. This was the comment by Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, who will propose […]

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Press Releases

6 May 2014

Ukraine: Mogherini urges Lavrov to halt the clashes and resuscitate the Geneva agreement

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini had a long conversation with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in the margins of the Council of Europe meeting in Vienna. The two foreign ministers discussed the situation in Ukraine, the on-going crises in Syria and Libya, and the international mobilisation to free the schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria. Minister Mogherini stressed […]

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Press Releases

5 May 2014

Nigeria: Mogherini, chiederò a Ue azione politica per liberazione studentesse

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini is seeking political action by the European Union to support the efforts to obtain the release of the abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria. “What strikes you most about the abduction of 280 schoolgirls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria in mid-April is the kidnappers’ determination to stand in the way of […]

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2 May 2014

Mozambico – Missione di imprenditori italiani a maggio (in translation)

Una delegazione italiana di 200 imprenditori sara’ dal 19 al 21 maggio in Mozambico per esplorare le opportunita’ di investimento che offre il Paese africano. L’iniziativa, dedicata ai settori dell’agroindustria, infrastrutture ed energia, e’ stata promossa dal ministero dello Sviluppo economico, in collaborazione con la Farnesina, e organizzata da Confindustria, Ice, Abi, Unioncamere, Rete Imprese […]

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