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10 May 2016

Minister Gentiloni today chaired the third meeting of the Joint Committee

Today the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, chaired the third meeting of the Joint Committee on Development Cooperation, the deliberative body established by the law reforming the Italian Cooperation system. The meeting approved, inter alia, the Invitation to Tender whereby to award, in 2016, contributions to initiatives proposed by social society […]

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10 May 2016

Canada – “Motorforpeace” arriva a Toronto e Ottawa

Il gruppo “Motofrpeace” fa tappa in Canada. La Onlus, costituita da appartenenti alle forze dell’ordine italiane e di altri Paesi europei con finalita’ di beneficenza nonche’ di collaborazione fra i diversi Corpi di Polizia, e’ arrivata a Ottawa. Obiettivo, patrocinato dal Capo della Polizia e dal Dipartimento di P.S. in collaborazione con il Servizio di […]

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6 May 2016

Iraq – An exhibition opens today at the MAXXI which tells the story of Italy’s fight to help preserve a cultural heritage

An exhibition called “Mesopotamia: Rising Again from Beauty” was opened today by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mario Giro. It runs from 7 May to 22 May and takes visitors on a journey across a multifaceted experience made of hologram projections, 3D reconstructions, videos, photographs and an original score. The exhibition tells a story […]

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5 May 2016

Ecuador – Italy converts debt into development projects

Marco Filippo Tornetta, Italian ambassador in Quito, and Guillaume Long, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, signed an intergovernmental debt-for-development Agreement, which enables them to convert debt into funds to launch development projects. The Agreement, which followed protracted negotiations, means a new programme worth 35 million euros can be started. A severe earthquake rocked the country on16 April, […]

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4 May 2016

Motoforpeace mission for children stops off in Canada

Motoforpeace, a charity set up by Italian and other European police forces to raise funds for projects to help poor children, has stopped off in Canada. It started in Panama, in March, and travelled through Central America to the US and Canada. It was received in Toronto by the Consul General, Giuseppe Pastorelli. Its 24 members […]

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2 May 2016

Beirut – Food security and a cooperation project

The FAO office in Lebanon with Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture has launched a project funded by the Italian Agency for Development  Cooperation. “Enhance the Livelihood and Food Security of Vulnerable Lebanese Women through Improving their Dairy Production Practices and Supporting their Dairy Processing Activities” proposes a number of ways to organise the dairy sector in […]

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28 April 2016

Tozeur – Cooperation, Italy supports rural communities in southern Tunisia

Italy is on the front line supporting development in the rural communities of southern Tunisia. The Italian Cooperation for Development Joint Committee has approved a payment of 5.1 million euros to the “Integrated Rural Development Programme in the Hazoua and Tamerza Delegations (Tozeur Governorate)”. The project, using experience gained by Italian Cooperation in Tunisia over […]

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20 April 2016

Minister Gentiloni in Islamabad

Minister Gentiloni’s visit to Pakistan, which follows his two-day visit to Afghanistan, confirms the great attention that Italy focuses on this region. Mr Gentiloni will meet with the President of the Republic, Mamnoon Hussain, with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, with National Security and Foreign Adviser to the Prime Minister Sartaj Aziz and with the Chief […]

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Press Releases

19 April 2016

Terremoto in Ecuador. 500.000 euro dall’Italia per le attività di immediato soccorso

In seguito al violento terremoto verificatosi lo scorso 16 aprile nella zona costiera dell’Ecuador, che ha causato oltre 400 vittime e più di 2.500 feriti, il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale ha deciso di destinare un contributo multilaterale di emergenza del valore di 500.000 Euro a favore della Federazione Internazionale della Croce […]

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19 April 2016

Italy’s commitment is a model for all its contingents in Afghanistan, says Minister Gentiloni

Following a visit to Herat, Foreign Minister Gentiloni greeted the Italian contingent in Kabul where he met the President of the Republic of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the Chief Executive, Abdullah Abdullah, and the Foreign Minister, Salahuddin Rabbani.This mission is part of the support programme Italy is offering to Afghanistan, which is being expressed with […]

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18 April 2016

The Project – Italian Cooperation in support of Albanian infrastructure

Italian Development Cooperation has allocated more than two million euros to carry out feasibility and environmental impact studies and projects to be implemented in Albania. The inter-governmental agreement “Project Facility for Feasibility Studies and Final Projects in the Infrastructure Sector” was recently signed at the Albanian Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure by Transportation Minister Edmond […]

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15 April 2016

Cooperation: 2016 Plan passed. Gentiloni: “Concrete action to relaunch Development Cooperation’s strategic role”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation chaired the meeting of the Joint Development Cooperation Committee held at the Farnesina. The Committee defined the 2016 plan with a total of 448 million Euros, of which roughly 213 million for the multilateral channel, approximately 120 million for the bilateral channel and over 113 million for […]

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