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Press Releases

6 February 2022

6 February: International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation

200 million: this is the number of women and girls that the United Nations estimates have been subjected to the brutal practice of female genital mutilation and that, in the last two years, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, has continued to rise. Female genital mutilations are an aberrant and unhuman practice that seriously violates women’s […]

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Diplomatic Network

31 January 2022

Kenya: agreement signed on the Integrated Development Programme

The Italian Ambassador to Kenya, Alberto Pieri, and the Kenyan Treasury Minister, Ukur Yatani, signed an agreement to implement the Malindi Integrated Social Health Development Programme – Phase II. The signing took place in Nairobi on 26 January 2022, in the presence of the Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation Office in Nairobi, Fabio Melloni. […]

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Press Releases

26 January 2022

Sereni on Africa: healthcare and vaccine aid Italy’s top priority

Today, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation attended the Salute e Sviluppo: l’impegno per l’Africa meeting at the Farnesina. Organised by NGOs Amref Health Africa – Italia and Codeway, the meeting centred on the findings of an Ipsos survey carried out on behalf of Amref Italia, titled La narrazione sull’Africa (The Africa Narrative). […]

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Press Releases

17 January 2022

Mission of Deputy Minister Sereni to Cuba and Costa Rica (Havana/San José, 16 – 21 January 2022)

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Marina Sereni, started an institutional visit to Cuba and Costa Rica on Sunday, 16 January, which will end on Friday, 21 January. The visit started in Havana where, today, Deputy Minister Sereni will chair the sixth Session of the Political Dialogue together with the First Deputy Minister, […]

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Press Releases

4 January 2022

Note of the Foreign Ministry – Philippines. The Italian Cooperation service’s emergency contribution for Typhoon Rai/Odette

The Italian Cooperation service has allocated a contribution of 300,000 euros to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in response to the emergency caused in the Philippines by Typhoon Rai (Odette, as it is called locally) with a death toll of approximately 380, numerous people injured and over 600,000 internally […]

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Press Releases

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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