On 17 April 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, took part in the videoconference on the COVID-19 emergency organized by the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Read moreToday, April 20th, a plane with a cargo of medical equipment donated by the Slovak government to Italy as aid in the fight against the Coronavirus left Bratislava. The transfer of the aid (300 thousand surgical masks and 500 litres of sanitiser concentrate) was organised on the initiative of the Ministry of the Interior […]
Read moreTo guarantee the continuity of as many projects as possible, but also greater flexibility, we are focusing particularly on the health sector and ‘wash’ and avoiding ‘return contagion’. The commitment of the Vice Minister, Emanuela Del Re, is to strengthen the Italian Cooperation intervention globally at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. In an interview […]
Read moreWith regard to what the newspaper Libero has reported today in the article “Closed Borders. Conte and Di Maio leave Italians stranded abroad”, it is specified that the action of the Foreign Ministry and of its entire network abroad to encourage the return of compatriots has been, and remains, incessant. Since the beginning of the […]
Read moreHow are you living these moments? “With concern but also with a great sense of responsibility. Italy and Europe are going through the biggest emergency since the Second World War. We are carrying out and hectic activity. We continue to look for aids abroad, through our diplomatic network and, we are studying how to restart […]
Read moreCome sta vivendo questi momenti? “Con preoccupazione ma anche con grande senso di responsabilità. L’Italia e l’Europa stanno attraversando la più grande emergenza dal secondo dopoguerra. Il lavoro è molto intenso perché stiamo continuando a reperire aiuti all’estero attraverso la nostra rete diplomatica e al tempo stesso stiamo studiando come meglio far ripartire il nostro […]
Read moreToday Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Re has chaired the extraordinary videoconference meeting of the Group of Friends on Food Security and Nutrition, which unites 41 countries to the United Nations. The UN Vice Secretary General, Amina, and the President of the General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, have participated. The meeting was co-organized by Italy, the Group […]
Read moreThe Sectoral Tables continue at the Foreign Ministry, led by Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano, on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio, with over 150 trade associations and business representatives and video conferences throughout Italy. The objective is to integrate the new needs that emerged from the business world […]
Read moreVice Minister Emanuela Del Re had a telephone conversation with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer. On 26 March last, the ICRC, together with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), presented a plan to combat the COVID-19 emergency in countries and crisis areas, […]
Read moreJust landed in Malpensa a new cargo of 3+ tonnes of medical equipment from Vietnam. True friends are there when you need them! Thanks again
Read moreA rereading of the pages on the plague of “I Promessi Sposi” (The Betrothed), never so tragically topical. This is the initiative of the Italian Cultural Institute of São Paulo, which has organized a virtual reading group on the Zoom application. The appointment is for the morning of Friday starting from April 24, always at […]
Read moreVice Minister Marina Sereni participated today, by videoconference, in the ministerial meeting of the Alliance for Multilateralism, organized by the Foreign Ministers of France, Jean Yves Le Drian and Germany, Heiko Maas, to discuss the need for a coordinated response to the Covid-19 pandemic, to strengthen the work of the United Nations and the World […]
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