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4 January 2022

Note of the Foreign Ministry – Tunisia. The Italian Cooperation service’s emergency contribution to combat COVID-19

Following upon Minister Di Maio’s visit to Tunisia last 28 December, the Italian Cooperation service has allocated an emergency contribution of 500,000 euros to the World Health Organization (WHO). The financial contribution shall be used by the Organization to purchase and distribute oxygen generators and to provide training to hospitals’ technical staff on the use and maintenance […]

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Press Releases

17 December 2021

Foreign Ministry – Development Cooperation, Vice Minister Sereni chairs the Joint Committee

Yesterday, Vice Minister Marina Sereni chaired the seventh and last meeting of the 2021 Joint Development Cooperation Committee, attended by the Director General for Development Cooperation, Ambassador Giorgio Marrapodi, and the Director of the Italian Development Cooperation Agency, Luca Maestripieri, and, limitedly to the issues relating to aid credits, the Director of the Ministry of […]

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Press Releases

15 December 2021

The Farnesina Announces: Italy is supplying medical equipment to Libya to aid in fighting COVID-19

A humanitarian shipment of more than 10 tons of medical equipment (ventilators, surgical masks and protective garments) reached the port of Tripoli on December 14 to assist that country in its battle against COVID-19. The material was made available by the support structure to the extraordinary Commissioner for the COVID-19 emergency, Gen. Francesco Paolo Figliuolo […]

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Press Releases

13 December 2021

Vice Minister Sereni chairs the 7th plenary meeting of the National Council for Development Cooperation (CNCS)

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Marina Sereni, chaired the seventh plenary meeting of the National Council for Development Cooperation (CNCS), a body established pursuant to article 16 of Law 125/2014, which brings together over 54 of the main public and private players, both profit and non-profit, operating in the world of cooperation. […]

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Press Releases

10 December 2021

Signing of the “Protocol of Action for the Safety of Cooperation Operators” in the presence of Deputy Minister Sereni

The signing ceremony of the “Protocol of Action for the Security of Cooperation Operators” between the Foreign Ministry (DGCS – Directorate-General for Development Cooperation, DGIT – Directorate General for Italian Citizens Abroad and Migration, and Secretariat-General -Crisis Unit), AICS (the Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development) and the networks of the civil society organisations AOI […]

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Press Releases

25 November 2021

Sereni: Africa and Italy are developing a strong partnership

“A strong partnership in support of the economic vocation of Africa is a priority of our foreign policy, as the document of strategic orientation on Africa issued last December clearly states”. The Vice Minister Marina Sereni declared this in a video address presented at the Summit held in Johannesburg by the European House Ambrosetti to […]

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Press Releases

23 November 2021

Notice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Sereni presides over the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation

The Vice Minister Marina Sereni presided over the sixth annual meeting of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation, with the participation of the General Director for Development Cooperation, Giorgio Marrapodi, and the Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Luca Maestripieri. Representatives of the Ministry for the Economy and Finance and the Savings and […]

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Press Releases

23 November 2021

Sereni opens the Assembly of the Parties of IDLO

“The rule of law is essential now more than ever before, because the effectiveness of the measures passed by the governments in order to ‘build back better’ after the pandemic derive from the ability of the institutions to be transparent, effective and responsible.” These words were spoken by Vice Minister Marina Sereni in her address […]

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Press Releases

13 November 2021

Minister Luigi Di Maio participates at the annual meeting of Medici per l’Africa CUAMM

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, participated today in Padua at the annual meeting of Medici per l’Africa CUAMM (Doctors for Africa). The 2021 edition, entitled “Ripartire” (Getting Started Again), discussed the resumption of activities following the most acute stage of the pandemic, and the relaunching of CUAMM’s work in […]

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Press Releases

9 November 2021

Climate change. – Vice Minister Sereni and the strategy for protecting women and children in the most fragile countries

“The Index has now become increasingly significant for all the development cooperation players, when it comes to the protection of the fundamental rights of millions of women and children”. The Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marina Sereni, said as much while presenting the WeWorld 2021 Index, adding: “Climate change is multiplying certain global crises like […]

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Press Releases

4 November 2021

Sereni, enhancing sustainable cotton production in Burkina Faso

Today, Vice Minister Marina Sereni participated in a video message at Expo Yeelba, a festival dedicated to promoting Burkina Faso’s cotton-textile chain. In the presence of some 250 participants, including the Burkinabé Foreign Minister, Alpha Barry, the Italian Ambassador, Andrea Romussi, and the EU Special Representative for the Sahel, Emanuela Del Re, the event made it possible to promote Faso Danfani (a traditional […]

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In detail

13 October 2021

Evento di presentazione del XII Festival della Diplomazia “Ready for the Unexpected?”

Al via alla Farnesina l’evento di Presentazione del XII Festival della Diplomazia “Ready for the Unexpected?”. Il Festival, che si svolgerà a Roma dal 13 al 22 ottobre con oltre 100 appuntamenti, riunirà illustri rappresentanti della diplomazia, della società civile, dei media e delle imprese per un confronto sulle relazioni diplomatiche e sui grandi temi […]

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