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18 March 2015
Dei – Ecuador: 2015-2017 investment plan for strategic sectors gets go-ahead

The government of Ecuador presented an investment catalogue of over 94 projects for the 2015-2017 triennial, in the strategic sectors of energy, telecommunications and basic industries, with an estimated value of more than 37 billion USD. One of the plan’s main objectives is to strengthen all forms of energy production. Remaining prominent therefore are the […]

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13 March 2015
Italy-Cuba – Gentiloni meets with President Raul Castro in Havana

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni, currently on a mission to Cuba, met with President Raul Castro who “expressed great friendship toward Italy and satisfaction with bilateral relations”. Gentiloni announced his invitation to President Castro to visit Italy, the occasion for which could be the Italy-Latin America Conference in June, or the […]

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13 March 2015
Buenos Aires – Books, a journey into 16th century Venice

An erudite, exuberant and passionate journey into the daily life of 16th century Venice is what Isabella Palumbo Fossati Casa offers in her book “Dentro le case. Abitare a Venezia nel Cinquecento” (2013, 360 p., Editore Gambier Keller collana Recto/verso). The book was the result of the study of 600 state archival inventories that chronicle […]

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11 March 2015
Mexico – SACE: 100 million in new projects considered

SACE, in 2013 the first European export credit firm to open an office in Mexico and that today boasts a 1.2 billion euro portfolio in that market (second in Latin America only to Brazil), is working on projects valued at 100 million euro in a wide variety of sectors, with the growing participation of SMEs […]

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10 March 2015
Buenos Aires – The art of Luiso Sturla

The Sala Roma of the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires will host an exhibition from 10 to 27 March entitled “Poesia di vita a colori. Oli su carta di Luiso Sturla”. A recollection of travels in Europe and South America and of their diverse cultures and peoples. The artist was born in 1930 in […]

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10 March 2015
IV Meeting of the Italy-Mexico Bi-National Commission – Joint Communiqué

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico José Antonio Meade co-chaired the sessions of the IV Meeting of the Italy-Mexico Bi-National Commission today in Mexico City. Both ministers acknowledged the importance of the Bi-National Commission as the foremost institutional bilateral relations instrument. A tool by which […]

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9 March 2015
Giro at the Ministerial Council of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) in Antigua de Guatemala

Under-Secretary Giro will participate tomorrow as an invited observer in the Ministerial Meeting of the Association of Caribbean States, held in Antigua de Guatemala. The under-secretary will meet with the foreign minister of Guatemala, who recently spoke in Rome at a conference for the presentation of Italian initiatives and programmes to ensure security in Central […]

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9 March 2015
Italy-Mexico: Gentiloni in Mexico City, to participate in Bi-National Commission, cooperation accords to be signed

Minister Paolo Gentiloni is in Mexico City for a meeting of the Italy-Mexico Bi-National Commission, the foremost bilateral collaboration body. Gentiloni will meet with Senate President Miguel Barbosa Huerta and Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose’ Antonio Meade Kuribrena, with whom he will discuss international policy concerns. Cooperation accords The Commission sessions will focus on the […]

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9 March 2015
Argentina – Presentation of EXPO pavilion

Argentina officially presented its pavilion for the Milan 2015 Universal Exposition in a ceremony at the Palacio San Martin, where foreign minister Eduardo Zuain and Argentine EXPO commissioner Martin Lettieri addressed the guests. Italy was represented by Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Giro and Italian ambassador to Buenos Aires Teresa Castaldo. Giro cited Argentina’s participation […]

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5 March 2015
Peru – Three Italian musicians performing with the National Symphony Orchestra

A special musical project organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Lima, in collaboration with the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, is now under way. Three Italian guests will be performing with Peru’s National Symphony Orchestra during is 2015 season. The first event, on 6 March, sees conductor Matteo Pagliari lead the orchestra at the Gran […]

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4 March 2015
Brazil – Meeting of Parliamentary Friendship Group

The first meeting of the Brazil-Italy Parliamentary Friendship Group since the beginning of the South American country’s new parliament has taken place at the Italian Embassy in Brasilia. Chaired by our Ambassador, Raffaele Trombetta, and by deputy Riccardo Barros, the meeting focused on strengthening economic, political and cultural ties between Italy and Brazil. The group […]

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3 March 2015
Under-Secretary Giro’s mission to Uruguay comes to an end

The mission to Uruguay by the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mario Giro, came to an end yesterday evening, 2 March 2015. Under-Secretary Giro attended in the inauguration ceremony for the new President, Tabaré Vázquez. “We’re now working to revitalise Italian-Uruguayan relations, especially economic”, commented Giro. During the inauguration ceremony the Under-Secretary also […]

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