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America Latina e Caraibi

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5 November 2013
Italy-Latin America – Electricity grid infrastructure offers growth opportunities, says Giro

Italy can provide Latin America with its consolidated experience and establish fruitful synergies in electricity infrastructure. This was the comment by Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Giro as he opened a workshop on electricity hosted at the Farnesina and organised in collaboration with the Italian-Latin American Institute (IILA), Enel, Terna and GSE. Access to electricity […]

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31 October 2013
Italy-Brazil – Cooperation in science, technology and innovation

Taking stock of fruitful collaboration under way and opening new chapters in bilateral interests that include science parks, start-ups, joint nanotechnology laboratories and Earth observation research formed the content of the first meeting of the Mastaldi scientific and technological cooperation commission that met on 24 October during the 5th edition of the Italy-Brazil Cooperation Council. […]

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30 October 2013
Minister Bonino meets with United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Executive Director Jan Mattsson

Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino met today in Rome with United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Executive Director Jan Mattsson, with whom she discussed Italy’s intention to pursue collaboration with UNOPS, taking the opportunity to request an update on programmes under way. Bonino also expressed her appreciation for the high quality and sustainability […]

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29 October 2013
Buenos Aires – The genius of Leonardo on display

An exhibition on Leonardo Da Vinci organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and Embassy in Buenos Aires will come to an end on 2 November. The show is an itinerant one that showcases the great Italian master’s inventive genius through 64 full-scale reconstructions built to the specifications of his actual drawings and manuscripts. Read more, […]

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25 October 2013
Italy-Brazil – Valensise: a great nation has signed up for Expo 2015

At the end of the 5th Italo-Brazilian Council today at the MFA, Secretary General Michele Valensise announced that Brazil had signed the contract for its participation in Expo 2015, ratifying its pledge of March last. Brazil to make a bid for Expo 2020 “A great nation for a great event”, Valensise asserted, expressing the hope […]

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22 October 2013
Brasilia – “Mestres do Renascimento” exhibition a huge success

The exhibition “Mestres do Renascimento” (Renaissance Masters), the largest featuring the Renaissance ever to be held in Latin America, has been a great success in Brasilia. Featuring works by Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Titian and other Italian masters, the show has attracted 3000 visitors so far. The opening ceremony, commented Italian Ambassador Raffaele Trombetta, “was […]

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17 October 2013
Italy-Cuba: Giro in Havana for bilateral policy talks

Under-Secretary Mario Giro held the first session of a series of bilateral Italo-Cuban policy talks yesterday with his Cuban counterpart Deputy Minister Rogelio Sierra Diaz. Their discussions foregrounded economic collaboration, with Cuba’s expression of a desire to expand the Italian cooperative experience and illustration of investment opportunities on that Caribbean island, encouraged by incentives for […]

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15 October 2013
Uruguay – Italy stands out at book fair

Italy was a protagonist at the Book Fair of Montevideo, Uruguay’s main publishing event. An ad hoc stand run by the Italian Cultural Institute promoted the Italian publishing sector, the Institute’s activities and the Italian language. Read more, in Italian

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14 October 2013
Giro in Peru, progress on partnerships

The themes of the VI Italy-Latin America Conference to be held in Rome in December, and in which President of Peru Humala is to participate, and Peru’s participation in the 2015 Milan Expo, were the focus of Under-Secretary Mario Giro’s mission to Peru, where he was received by the Peruvian Congress on the morning of […]

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11 October 2013
Brasilia – “Renaissance Masters” on display

The exhibition “Mestres do Renascimento” (Renaissance Masters) opens in Brasilia today, 11 October 2013, and will run until late January 2014. The show is the largest featuring the Renaissance ever to be held in Latin America. As Italian Ambassador Raffaele Trombetta commented, “the exhibition underscores the excellent state of Italian-Brazilian relations, where we are advancing […]

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11 October 2013
Peru – Under-Secretary Giro on visit to discuss wide range of issues

The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mario Giro, has embarked on a visit to Peru that will cover a wide range of issues. He will have meetings with the President of Peru, Ollanta Humala, and with the ministers of Culture, Production, and Foreign Trade. The Under-Secretary will also be addressing the Congress, and will visit the […]

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