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1 July 2019

Deputy Minister Del Re attends the meeting: “Humanitarian corridors for a solidarity-based Europe”

Today, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, attended the meeting “Humanitarian corridors for a  solidarity-based Europe” at Palazzo Montecitorio, at the presence of Roberto Fico, the President of the Chamber of Deputies. The Deputy Minister defined humanitarian corridors as an “intelligent and virtuous response representing a reasonable and collaborative […]

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27 June 2019

Deputy Foreign Minister Del Re meets with the Minister of Agriculture of Senegal

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, received at the Farnesina the Minister of Agriculture of Senegal, Moussa Baldé.  The meeting made it possible to exchange views on the two Countries’ bilateral relations, with a special focus on development cooperation and on cooperating in the agri-food sector.  After highlighting Italy’s strategic […]

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26 June 2019

Meeting of Deputy Minister Del Re with the UN Under-Secretary-General

Today the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, received the UN Under-Secretary-General (USG) and Head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Mark Lowcock, at the Farnesina. The Deputy Minister expressed her appreciation for Lowcock’s commitment to make OCHA’s action more effective, emphasizing that greater decentralization […]

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25 June 2019

Deputy Foreign Minister Del Re meets with the Executive Director of the “Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria”.

Today at the Farnesina, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, met with Peter Sands, the Executive Director of the “Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria”. The meeting offered the opportunity to take stock of the situation ahead of the refinancing Conference of Lyon next 9-10 October. In […]

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Press Releases

24 June 2019

Deputy Foreign Minister Del Re attends a ceremony today in Mogadishu to award the first Somali National University degrees

  Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, attended a ceremony today in Mogadishu to award the first Somali National University (SNU) degrees since it reopened in 2014, with the President of Somalia, Mohamed Farmajo also in attendance. The Italian Cooperation system has supported the relaunching of the SNU since 2012 […]

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Press Releases

24 June 2019

Visita della Vice Ministra Del Re in Tigray

La Vice Ministra degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Emanuela Del Re, ha svolto una visita in Tigray per recarsi al sito archeologico di Axum. La missione è stata molto apprezzata dal Primo Ministro etiopico, Abiy Ahmed Ali, che pochi giorni prima si era recato egli stesso ad Axum, e dalle Autorità del Tigray. […]

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Press Releases

24 June 2019

Deputy Foreign Minister Del Re visits Ethiopia’s Tigray Region

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, travelled to Tigray to visit the archaeological site of Axum. Her visit was greatly appreciated by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed Ali, who visited Axum only a few days earlier, as well as by the Authorities of the Tigray Region. The […]

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Press Releases

24 June 2019

Humanitarian flight to Sudan from the Italian Cooperation service

Following the instructions of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, this morning a humanitarian flight of the Italian Cooperation service took off for Khartoum from the United Nations humanitarian response depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi carrying approximately 10 tons of medicines and medical and sanitary kits. The operation responds to […]

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Diplomatic Network

20 June 2019

Conference of Rectors of African Universities

The Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), Ambassador Elisabetta Belloni, opened the “Conference of Rectors of African Universities” hosted at the Farnesina with a greeting addressed to the heads of higher education and research institutions of 19 African Countries before their departure to Teramo to attend the “Gran Sasso […]

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Press Releases

14 June 2019

Incontro del Sottosegretario Di Stefano con il Premio Nobel Nadia Murad

Il Sottosegretario agli Esteri e alla Cooperazione Internazionale, Manlio Di Stefano ha ricevuto oggi alla Farnesina, Nadia Murad, attivista yazida per i Diritti Umani e Premio Nobel Per la Pace 2018, in Italia per ritirare il “Premio Bellisario internazionale”. Il colloquio si è incentrato sulla situazione della minoranza yazida, originaria principalmente della regione del Sinjar, […]

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14 June 2019

Incontro del Sottosegretario Di Stefano con il Premio Nobel Nadia Murad

The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano, today received at the Farnesina, Nadia Murad, a Yazidi Human Rights activists and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2018, who is in Italy to pick up the “Premio Bellisario internazionale”. The conversation focused on the situation of the Yazidi minority mostly originating […]

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Press Releases

12 June 2019

The Foreign Ministry takes action to protect minors in Libya​

The Foreign Ministry has arranged a two-million-euro financing to UNICEF from the Africa Fund to fund actions aimed at protecting migrant minors in Libya, also by improving hygiene and health conditions in the area around Tripoli. The project envisages the creation of reception centres for vulnerable youths in Tripoli, with a view to assuring them […]

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