Asia e Oceania

Events

25 March 2021

Italy celebrates IORA Day 2021

The IORA was founded on 7 March 1997 for the purpose of facilitating exchanges and investments between the Countries with coastlines on the Indian Ocean. The aim was to do this by promoting sustainable economic cooperation in priority sectors such as maritime security, sustainable fishing and the blue economy, disaster prevention, academic, scientific and technological […]

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24 March 2021

Vice Minister Marina Sereni calls the Chinese Ambassador to Italy, Li Junhua, to the Foreign Affairs Ministry

Italy reiterates its unmoveable position on safeguarding human rights and fundamental liberties, and expresses its solidarity with the European parliamentarians, academics, think tanks, and functionaries affected by the Chinese sanctions.  This is the basic message that Vice Foreign Minister Marina Sereni put across to the Chinese Ambassador to Italy, Li Junhua, called to the Foreign […]

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4 March 2021

Minister Di Maio holds telephone talks with the Foreign Minister of Armenia Ara Aivazian

On 3 March, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, held telephone talks with the Foreign Minister of Armenia Ara Aivazian. The topics discussed included: the implementation of the 9/11 Trilateral Declaration, bilateral relations between Italy and Armenia, Italy’s contribution to the future UNESCO mission in Nagorno Karabakh and surrounding areas […]

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4 March 2021

Minister Di Maio holds telephone talks with the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov

On 3 March, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, held telephone talks with the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov. The talks centred on the implementation of the 9/11 Trilateral Declaration and on Italy’s participation in the reconstruction effort in Azerbaijan. Other topics included the economic and energy relations between […]

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2 March 2021

Myanmar Ambassador summoned to the Foreign Ministry

The Ambassador of the Union of Myanmar in Italy, H.E. Ms. Hmway Khyne, has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry today to receive the request that the military authorities immediately cease all violent repression of the democratic protests underway in the country. Italy has expressed its full solidarity to all those who are peacefully demonstrating […]

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1 March 2021

Italian Economic Diplomacy 01 March: breaking news from around the world

JAPAN – WEBINARS ON THE INITIATIVES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE EU-JAPAN ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation has organised a busy calendar of events, starting on Tuesday 2 March, in relation to the implementation of the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). The EPA, which entered into force on 1 February 2019, promotes the […]

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25 February 2021

Italian Economic Diplomacy 25 February: breaking news from around the world

BAHRAIN – SEEKING INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS FOR THE COUNTRY’S FIRST-EVER METRO SYSTEM Bahrain has launched a tender process for selecting international partners to build the country’s metro system. The multi-million-dinar project aims to develop a rail network in the Kingdom based on a PPP (Public-Private Partnership) model. To this end, the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications (MTT) […]

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23 February 2021

Violence in Myanmar: G7 Foreign Ministers’ statement

Statement from the Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US and the High Representative of the European Union: “We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union firmly condemn violence […]

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16 February 2021

Italian Economic Diplomacy 16 February: breaking news from around the world

CHINA – ‘FLORENTIA VILLAGE’ OPENS IN CHONGQING  The Florentia Village has recently been inaugurated in Chongqing. It currently is the seventh investment project in China by the Italian real-estate group RDM-Fingen, after Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu and Hong Kong. The Chongqing complex which, when completed, will occupy an area of 60,000 square metres, is […]

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3 February 2021

G7 Foreign Ministers’ statement condemning the coup in Myanmar

The Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US and the High Representative of the European Union have issued a statement condemning the coup in Myanmar. “We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative […]

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1 February 2021

Foreign Ministry Note – Myanmar

Italy strongly condemns the wave of arrests in Myanmar and calls for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi and of all the arrested political leaders. The will of the people, clearly expressed at the latest elections, must be respected. We are concerned about this sudden interruption of the democratic transition process and urge […]

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25 January 2021

Foreign Ministry Note – Afghanistan

The Foreign Ministry informs that, this morning, a vehicle of the Italian Embassy in Afghanistan was involved in an explosion caused by a makeshift bomb in Police District 4 of the capital Kabul. No casualties have been reported and no Italian nationals were involved in the incident.

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