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America Latina e Caraibi

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27 March 2012
Ecuador – debt conversion to save the environment

Minister Terzi discussed a debt conversion agreement while meeting at the foreign ministry in Rome with Vice-President of the National Assembly of Ecuador Juan Carlos Cassinelli, here for a series of parliamentary meetings and encounters with the Ecuadoran community. The debt conversion agreement will allow the government of Ecuador to use the resulting resources to […]

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Press Releases
26 March 2012
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Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi met at the Fforeign ministry in Rome today with Vice-President of the National Ssembly of Ecuador Juan Carlos Cassinelli, in Italy for a series of parliamentary diplomacy meetings and with the Ecuadoran community. With Terzi he confirmed the excellent status of bilateral relations, based on the strong bonds of […]

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23 March 2012
San José: Garibaldi in Central America. Casa Italia book presentation

In San José, the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italian Unity closed with the presentation of a book on Garibaldi’s presence in Central America. The book also features one of his followers who lived for some years in Costa Rica and took part, in 1856, in the defence of the country’s national sovereignty. Read […]

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20 March 2012
Mexico City: Italian mission to Puebla to boost economic and cultural relations

Italian Ambassador to Mexico Roberto Spinelli made a recent mission to the State of Puebla to meet with the local authorities with a view to boosting economic and cultural collaboration. On that occasion the local ICE office received the Tetraelica Award of the Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), important recognition of the […]

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20 March 2012
Lima: conference on Italy and Andean and Amason Studies Centre

Within the framework of Italo-Peruvian cultural cooperation, the Italian Cultural Institute of Lima is promoting the creation of an Italian Centre for Andean and Amazon Studies, to be housed in the Institute’s own rooms. The centre’s task will be to collect the experiences and data produced over the years by numerous Italian anthropologists, ethnologists, historians, […]

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19 March 2012
Brasilia: economic workshop on italo-brazilian development models

The Embassy of Italy in Brasilia hosted an economic workshop last week “Brazil and Italy in the global context: experiences and models of development”, whose more than two hundred participants represented major Italian and Brazilian economic concerns that included Telecom Italia, Intesa Sanpaolo and Avio. The initiative was organised by the Guido and Maria Carli […]

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15 March 2012
Italy-Spain: Dassù in Madrid to revive bilateral and European cooperationeuropea (in translation)

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Marta Dassù’s mission to Madrid sought mainly to revive cooperation between Italy and Spain on questions concerning the EU and Latin America “after a year of sparse relations owing to respective domestic affairs”, and with “the new period of intense bilateral contacts” that began with the February summit between Premiers Mario […]

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15 March 2012
San Jose’: italian eco guardians to protect environment in Costa Rica

The Italian ecological guardians are back on the job this year protecting the environment in Costa Rica, an initiative that has been going on for 20 years now and includes two missions per year by the Region of Emilia Romagna and the volunteers of “Guardie Ecologiche Volontarie – GEV” (Volunteer Ecological Guardians). To read more […]

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14 March 2012
Under-Secretary Dassu’ meets with Colombian Trade Minister Sergio Diaz Granados Guida

Under-Secretary Dassù met today at the Headquarters of Unioncamere with Colombian Trade Minister Sergio Diaz Granados Guida, on the occasion of the “Country Presidentation: Colombia” organised by the Foreign Ministry, Unioncamere and Confindustria, in collaboration with the Embassy of Colombia.The meeting offered an opportunity to review the excellent status of relations between Italy and Colombia, […]

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5 March 2012
Cuba: investment opportunities for Italy, meeting at the IILA

Trade and investment opportunities for Italy in Cuba will be the theme of a meeting on Thursday 8 March at the Italo-Latin American Institute (IILA) in Rome. The sectors in question will include farming and food production, energy, the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnologies, culture, machinery and mining, infrastructure, TICS and tourism. The meeting is sponsored […]

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5 March 2012
Montevideo: last leg of the written in Italy tour, Italian literature abroad

The long journey of Written in Italy – the first itinerant library of Italian literature translated abroad – comes to an end in Latin America where it began with the first edition in Argentina. Twelve stops in over four years, covering more than 100,000 kilometres, for an unprecedented experience that will wind up in Montevideo […]

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