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28 July 2014
Cooperation – In the field for Palestinian health

The foreign ministry signed a convention on collaboration between the Italian Development Cooperation and the four Italian regions of Umbria, Tuscany, Campania and Sicily within the framework of a programme aimed at upgrading the Palestinian healthcare system (POSIT). The idea is to offer the services of professional from the regions’ various healthcare services with experience […]

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24 July 2014
South Sudan: €1 million in Italian Cooperation to UNICEF for healthcare and nutrition aid

The MFA’s Directorate General for Development Cooperation approved an emergency contribution of one million euro to UNICEF for healthcare and nutritional assistance on behalf of the communities struck by the serious humanitarian crisis in South Sudan, with special attention to women and children. The contribution follows upon Italy’s pledge during the South Sudan Donors Conference […]

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21 July 2014
Rule of law and growth – MFA-IDLO conference in Rome

The conference “Achieving a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda: The Contribution of the Rule of Law to Equity and Sustainability” is under way at the headquarters of the UN’s FAO in Rome, and was organised by the MFA in collaboration with the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) within the framework of the Italian duty presidency of […]

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Press Releases
20 July 2014
Middle East: Mogherini cites intollerable casualty toll, urges stop to shelling

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini urged the parties to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to halt the shelling. “With each passing hour the number of dead and wounded rises as the shelling destroys homes and public buildings. We have also learned that the Um el Nasser Child Center, which the Italian Cooperation contributed to opening, has […]

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15 July 2014
Development Cooperation. EU Ministers to decide on post-2015 agenda by December. Commission document on migration and development

The European Union’s position on the global development agenda post-2015 will be decided by the end of December. As the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lapo Pistelli, announced at the press conference after today’s meeting of European Union development ministers in Florence, the ministers for development cooperation have given Italy a full mandate to adopt […]

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8 July 2014
Italian Cooperation – 2.8 million for Eastern Sudan

The Italian Development Cooperation has launched two new efforts in eastern Sudan, one in the healthcare sector and one on behalf of food security, for an overall value of 2.8 million euro. The projects will concentrate on assisting the populations of the States of Kassala, Gedaref and Red Sea, a vast area where maternal-infant mortality […]

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Press Releases
4 July 2014
Pistelli in Eastern Africa: AU a major interlocutor

The African Union gave the green light to the idea of dialogue between the EU and Eastern Africa, including Egypt and Libya. The aim of the initiative, promoted by Italy and supported by the European Commission, is the joint management of migration flows with the countries of origin and transit as part of a more […]

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Press Releases
26 June 2014
Pistelli hails Italian Senate approval of cooperation reform

For the first time in many years, a parliamentary house has approved a text outlining a Italian Cooperation reform that modernises Italian official development assistance by providing more effective instruments and promoting cooperation as an “integral and qualifying part” of foreign policy. “In all these years of attempts, discussion, debate and efforts both inside and […]

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