This site uses technical (necessary) and analytics cookies.
By continuing to browse, you agree to the use of cookies.

Image headerAsia e Oceania

Asia e Oceania

Press Releases
18 August 2021
Air Force flight landing from Kabul

The Air Force flight with 86 passengers on board, including some Italians, numerous former Afghan collaborators and their families, European Union and NATO Delegation personnel, evacuated from Kabul, has landed. Before leaving the airport, they will all be subject to a COVID swab test, as happened last Monday on the occasion of the arrival of […]

Read more
Press Releases
18 August 2021
Afghanistan: Joint Statement on the situation of women and girls

This statement has been co-signed by Albania, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, European Union, Honduras, Guatemala, North Macedonia, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Senegal, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States of America.  We are deeply worried about Afghan women and girls, their rights to education, work and freedom of movement. […]

Read more
Press Releases
17 August 2021
Afghanistan: Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union

European Union Ministers of Foreign Affairs gathered today for an extraordinary meeting to consider the latest momentous developments in Afghanistan. The country finds itself at a crossroads after decades of conflict.  The wellbeing and security of its citizens, political and human rights achievements, as well as regional and international security are at stake. The negotiation […]

Read more
In detail
17 August 2021
Participation of Minister Luigi Di Maio in the extraordinary Foreign Affairs Council meeting on the crisis in Afghanistan

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, participated in the extraordinary Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union. During the meeting, the need for coordination and cooperation among EU member states and the United States and other allies was reiterated to complete evacuation operations and define a shared strategy towards Afghanistan. […]

Read more
Diplomatic Network
17 August 2021
Tokyo, Pansini’s photographic exhibition on the Paralympics

Having followed the unfolding of the Olympics by showing videos, news, and old documentaries on the 1960 Rome and 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo wishes to celebrate the Paralympics by means of a gallery of photographs by Maria Pansini, covering the Italian Paracycling team.     From 8 August to 5 […]

Read more
Press Releases
17 August 2021
Afghanistan: the Embassy in Kabul reconstituted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Italian diplomatic presence in Afghanistan is maintained

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that the Italian Embassy in Kabul, led by Ambassador Vittorio Sandalli, who returned to Italy yesterday from Afghanistan, has been immediately reconstituted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, along with the other European diplomatic representations redeployed to their homeland, and is already operational. In close coordination with its European partners, it monitors the […]

Read more
Press Releases
16 August 2021
JOINT NOTICE BY MAECI AND MINISTRY OF DEFENCE – Afghanistan: Ministry of Defence and MAECI. A plane landed from Kabul with Italian Embassy staff, civilian nationals and some Afghan collaborators on board

The Italian Air Force’s KC 767 plane has just landed at Fiumicino airport with about 70 people on board, including diplomatic staff and former Afghan collaborators. The flight, which took off yesterday, is part of the plan to bring Italian embassy staff back home and of the Aquila Omnia Operation to bring former Afghan collaborators and their […]

Read more
Diplomatic Network
16 August 2021
Debate in Sydney on Italy’s role in the aftermath of the pandemic

A debate on Italy after COVID-19 pandemic. This is the theme of the webinar organised for 21 September by the Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney entitled ‘After the pandemic: Italy’s place in the world’. Dr. Ric. Gabriele Abbondanza will speak, interviewed by the Australian researcher in Italian studies, Talia Walker. Gabriele Abbondanza will explain how the […]

Read more
Press Releases
13 August 2021
Afghanistan:Italian Foreign Ministry in close contact with the US State Department

In light of the Taliban advance in Afghanistan, the Italian Foreign Ministry is maintaining the closest contact with the US State Department. Just yesterday, Italy’s General Secretary Ettore Sequi spoke with the US Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman. They agreed to further strengthen coordination between the embassies of all the allied countries in Kabul, […]

Read more
Diplomatic Network
12 August 2021
Shanghai: Italian artists from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century

Five centuries of art are represented in Shanghai in the exhibition “Masters. From the Renaissance to the nineteenth century”. The initiative has the patronage of the Embassy of Italy in China, the Consulate General in Shanghai, and the Municipality of Bergamo, as well as the support of the Italian Cultural Institute and the ICE Office […]

Read more