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COVID-19

Diplomatic Network
30 September 2021
Jakarta: Italy delivers 796,800 doses of Covid vaccines

Today Italy delivered 796,800 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to Jakarta, donated to Indonesia via the COVAX Facility.The handover ceremony took place this morning in the cargo area of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, in the presence of Ambassador Benedetto Latteri. The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (KEMLU) was represented by the Director for the Countries […]

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Press Releases
3 September 2021
G20: Della Vedova, Covid showed that cities must become better places to live

“After nine months of very productive work, the Italian G20 Presidency is leading the final efforts towards the Rome Summit to be held on 30 and 31 October. In this framework, the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the need to analyse the different strategies aimed at transforming our cities into better places to live”. The Deputy Minister of […]

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Press Releases
2 August 2021
Foreign Ministry Note – Vaccine supplies to Tunisia

In consideration of the ongoing pandemic emergency that is hitting Tunisia particularly hard, Italy is determined to continue to provide concrete and immediate support to the Tunisian people in the fight against COVID-19. After sending five containers of medical supplies and donations for the purchase of oxygen generators for Tunisian hospitals, following a specific request […]

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Press Releases
15 June 2021
Cooperation; Sereni, support for Global Fund activities

Talks in video conference format between the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Marina Sereni, and Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund, whose activities are very important in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in developing countries. “Italy,” Ms. Sereni said, “is proud to have contributed, in 2001, to the […]

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Press Releases
10 June 2021
Foreign Ministry Note – Deputy Minister Della Vedova with the Deputy Minster of Mexico: relaunching bilateral cooperation after the pandemi

Deputy Minister Benedetto Della Vedova met today, by videoconference, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Carmen Moreno Toscano. Their talks focused on bilateral relations, the response to the pandemic emergency, fair and universal access to vaccines against COVID-19 in the framework of the COVAX Facility, cooperation within the G20 and the priorities of […]

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In detail
3 June 2021
Visit by Minister Luigi Di Maio to the Accademia dei Lincei

Today the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, visited the Accademia dei Lincei, one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions and a reference point for scientific and cultural promotion in Italy and around the world. This is an important collaboration, in the context of the Italian Presidency of […]

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Press Releases
3 June 2021
Covid-19: Vice Minister Sereni, more vaccines for the Mediterranean area

“Italy has contributed to the multilateral response to the pandemic by providing Euro 416 million, Euro 385 million of which was for the Covax Facility. This is the international programme for access to the vaccine, which we believe to be the best tool for ensuring fair, safe, and effective distribution”. This was said at the […]

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Press Releases
12 May 2021
COVID-19: Sereni, strengthening global commitment against the pandemic

Increasing global vaccine production, promoting industrial cooperation, fostering the development of production capacities to ensure local demand for tests, treatments and vaccines to fight and overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. These are some of the key elements for increasing equitable distribution of vaccines, together with the urgent need to ensure fully operational supply chains, highlighted during […]

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Press Releases
21 April 2021
Deputy Minister Di Stefano: satisfaction about imminent reopening of the trade fair sector

Deputy Minister Di Stefano today inaugurated the first “sectoral task force” between the Italian and German trade fair systems in the context of the “DRUPA Digital” trade fair, Germany’s main event dedicated to printing machinery. The meeting is part of a series of opportunities for discussion that will involve the respective trade associations of various […]

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Press Releases
14 April 2021
Sereni: FAO, the Food Coalition’s contribution to the G20

“Exactly one year ago, Italy launched the Food Coalition, with the idea of not only proposing a new way to respond to the pandemic, to prevent the health crisis from turning into a food crisis, but especially of building a global coalition to reach the Zero Hunger goal and build a resilient and sustainable post-pandemic […]

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