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Asia e Oceania

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13 March 2012
ORE 14.00 – MARINES: Ashton committed to positive solution, Monti says. EU contacts in India after Monti-Terzi intervention

EU High Representative Catherine Ashton “has committed to undertaking any possible further step toward a positive solution” to the affair involving two Italian servicemen in India. This was the message of Premier Mario Monti in a note issued in Brussels after a meeting with the High Representative, during which she supplied the Italian Premier with […]

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Interviews
12 March 2012
Letter from Minister Terzi: «From Nigeria to India»

Dear Editor I would like to express some observations regarding your newspaper’s commentary on our foreign policy efforts under circumstances that have inspired criticism. If, on the one hand, it is proper and understandable that these affairs be kept in the spotlight, on the other hand, their complexity is leading to a misapprehension that I, […]

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9 March 2012
NIGERIA: Terzi a Hague, “massima chiarezza” – MARO’: L’UE in campo. L’Italia conferma la sua posizione (in translation)

Il blitz anglo-nigeriano in Nigeria nel corso del quale sono rimasti uccisi l’italiano Franco Lamolinara ed un cittadino britannico e la vicenda dei due maro’ arrestati in India sono stati al centro della riunione informale dei ministri degli esteri Ue a Copenaghen. Nell’ambito della richiesta esplicita di “chiarimento” (“è necessario un chiarimento sul piano politico-diplomatico”) […]

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9 March 2012
MARO’: Terzi a Ue, sia priorita’ difesa principi che regolano l’impegno comune contro la pirateria (in translation)

“Di fronte al pericoloso precedente creatosi (sul caso dei Marò), ribadirò la priorità che per noi europei e per la comunità internazionale rappresenta la riaffermazione e la difesa dei principi che regolano l’impegno comune contro la pirateria” e le missioni militari. Lo ha detto il Ministro degli esteri Giulio Terzi appena arrivato a Copenaghen per […]

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9 March 2012
Comitato interministeriale di sicurezza attivato in permanenza – Governo: rischio crescente per nostri connazionali in specifiche situazioni internazionali (in translation)

“Alla luce del contesto di crescente rischio al quale sono esposti nostri connazionali in alcune specifiche situazioni internazionali, si è deciso che il Comitato interministeriale della sicurezza della Repubblica (CISR) rimarrà d’ora in poi attivato in permanenza”. Lo riferisce una nota di Palazzo Chigi, al termine della riunione del CISR svoltasi questa mattina per fare […]

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8 March 2012
OUR SERVICEMEN: Respect international law, Italy tells India

The intervention of the Head of State, the initiative by Prime Minister Mario Monti, and the daily endeavours of Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi all indicate the approach Italy is following with India to find a solution to the case of the two servicemen arrested in that country. For Italy, the necessary condition is full respect […]

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Interviews
8 March 2012
Terzi: “Here’s how we’ll bring them home”

“Our line hasn’t changed. We’ve been firm with India since the outset, while seeking at all times not to raise the temperature of the discussion. We don’t want to compromise a situation that’s already very difficult. But the proceeding against the Italians is illegal. They’re military personnel engaged in combating piracy, a very serious threat […]

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7 March 2012
India: caso Marò, telefonata Monti-Singh (in translation)

Il caso dei due Marò italiani trattenuti in India è stato oggetto di un colloquio telefonico tra il Presidente del Consiglio Mario Monti ed il Primo Ministro indiano Manmohan Singh. “Nel ribadire al Premier indiano la massima attenzione e preoccupazione con cui il Governo segue le vicende dei Marò italiani Massimiliano Latorre e Salvatore Girone, […]

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Interviews
7 March 2012
Sui Marò deve muoveresi anche l’Europo

Da quindici giorni è in prima linea sul “fronte indiano”. Un impegno che Staffan de Mistura rilancia in queste ore cruciali. E nell’intervista concessa a l’Unità spiega la strategia italiana per riportare a casa Massimiliano Latorre e Salvatore Girone, i due marò in carcere in India. «Non siamo stati sconfitti – rimarca pochi minuti dopo […]

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6 March 2012
Tokyo: Seminar on energy efficiency and renewables

The Italian Embassy in Tokyo organised a seminar on 2 March 2012 on “Renewable Energy and the Feed-In Tariffs System in Italy”. The event took place during World Smart Energy Week, the main Japanese event in the renewable energy, energy efficiency and smart grid sector. Participants included representatives of Gestore Servizi Energetici GSE (the public […]

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6 March 2012
Our servicemen: Minister Terzi summons the Indian Ambassador to Rome

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has summoned the Indian Ambassador to Rome, Debrabata Saha, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Minister Terzi reiterated the positions already expressed by the Italian Government on the Italian courts’ sole jurisdiction over an event involving organs of the state operating to combat piracy under the Italian flag and in […]

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Press Releases
6 March 2012
Minister Terzi summons the Indian Ambassador to Rome to the Foreign Ministry

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi summoned the Indian Ambassador to Rome, Debrabata Saha, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, 6 March 2012. Minister Terzi was acting in the name of the Italian Government to protest against the conduct of the Indian authorities with respect to the two Italian military held in Trivandrum following the events […]

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