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3 May 2012

WASHINGTON: Ceremony for return of artefacts to Italian state

The Italian Embassy acted as host to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, on 29 April 2012. The event was the ceremony for the repatriation to Italy of a number of significant artefacts confiscated in the United States at the request of the Italian authorities. New Italy-United States agreement The ceremony, which followed negotiations […]

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19 April 2012

Afghanistan – Terzi: Italy’s contribution post-2014 will be substantial

Italy’s contribution to the fund to support Afghanistan’s security forces at the end of the transition in late 2014 will be “substantial and in line with the size and quality of its presence in Afghanistan over the last decade”. The assurance was given by Minister Giulio Terzi, speaking in Brussels during the meeting of NATO […]

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14 April 2012

VIDEO – Interview with Minister Terzi on CNN – The Situation Room

Minister Terzi was the guest of the CNN broadcast “The Situation Room”, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on Syria and the Security Council, the Iran nuclear question and the Italian economic situation.

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13 April 2012

Youth and the city, call for innovative projects

In the context of promoting a global partnership of donor countries and developing countries, the Catalytic Fund, a World Bank Trust Fund, has launched the first Call for Proposals centred on youth, entitled “Youth and the City: Challenges of and Visions for Demographic Change” for innovative urban projects. Local bodies, NGOs and Universities The call […]

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13 April 2012

G8: appeal to UN for North Korea and Syria – Italy’s piracy proposal embraced, highly significant, says Terzi

The countries of the G8 agreed to appeal to the UN Security Council for “appropriate measures” against North Korea for its attempt to send a Kwangmyongsong-3 Satellite into orbit; the foreign ministers also urged the UN to send observers to Syria to verify and ensure implementation of the Kofi Annan plan, since what has been […]

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10 April 2012

G8: military protection in counter-piracy missions, says Terzi – Arab Spring, “let’s not wait until the fall comes”

At the G8 meeting in Washington on 11 and 12 April, “I will remind my colleagues of the urgent need to protect our troops deployed in counter-piracy missions”, asserted Minister Giulio Terzi, who will be participating on those days in the G8 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in the United States, not least in relation to the […]

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30 March 2012

Italia-USA: Washington’s ten most powerful women celebrated at the Italian Embassy

Some of the most powerful women of the Nation’s Capital graced Villa Firenze last night as Italian Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero hosted the 2012 edition of the Giorgio Armani/Elle Magazine “Washington DC Power List” at his official residence. The event celebrated some of the biggest names of the Washington power elite, including U.S. Secretary of Labor […]

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28 March 2012

AFGHANISTAN: No change in Italian-Alliance strategy, reports Terzi

Italy’s “strategy [editor’s note: that of Italy and its allies in Afghanistan] goes forward and has not changed direction. Therefore, the timeframes are those that were described and announced”. This was Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi’s comment at the end of a meeting at the foreign ministry in Rome with US Special Envoy for […]

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27 March 2012

Ambassador Bisogniero opens twitter account for americans interested in getting to know Italy better

“Like the Internet, social media play a very important role in International relations and public diplomacy today—says Claudio Bisogniero—and have become an instrument of choice for engaging in an increasingly open and compelling dialogue with the U.S. public and anyone interested in knowing Italy better.” With the launch of @CBisogniero, the Embassy’s presence on the […]

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23 March 2012

Los Angeles – “Fashion in Italy: 150 years of elegance”. A lecture at the Italian Cultural Institute

Fashion historian Marco Urizzi gave a lecture on “Fashion in Italy: 150 years of elegance” in Los Angeles on 20 March 2012. Organised in collaboration with prestigious local institutions, in this case Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the lecture is one of the Italian Cultural Institute’s events dedicated to fashion. On 21 March, the […]

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9 March 2012

New York: homage to Michelangelo Antonioni at the Italian Cultural Institute

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of Italian cinema’s most iconic figures, the Italian Cultural Institute in New York has organised screenings of some of his most famous films. The programme begins on 29 March 2012. Read full article, in Italian

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1 March 2012

ITALIA-USA: Ambasciatore Bisogniero, sistema Italia forte e visibile (in translation)

“La presenza italiana negli Stati Uniti è forte, visibile ed articolata”: sono le parole del nuovo Ambasciatore italiano negli Stati Uniti, Claudio Bisogniero, che ha presieduto la prima riunione di Sistema del 2012 svoltasi nella sede diplomatica a Washington. Il quadro dei rapporti bilaterali sul piano economico risulta molto positivo con una crescita del 19% […]

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