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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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Press Releases
1 July 2014
Death penalty: first Task Force meeting at Farnesina. Moratorium campaign to be an EU Presidency priority, says Mogherini

Italy is taking forward the battle for a universal moratorium on the death penalty. Today at the Farnesina, Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini chaired the first meeting of the task force that will coordinate Italy’s action in the run-up to the United Nations vote on a new resolution. Participants included representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Amnesty […]

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Press Releases
28 June 2014
Egitto: indignazione Italia per condanne. Ambasciatore vede autorità Cairo

La Farnesina ha espresso indignazione per la conferma in Egitto della condanna a morte di 183 esponenti della Fratellanza Musulmana e le pesanti pene decise per un gruppo di giornalisti di Al Jazeera. L’ambasciatore al Cairo ha incontrato nei giorni scorsi esponenti del governo egiziano per ricordare che l’Italia da anni si batte per una […]

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Press Releases
28 June 2014
Egitto: indignazione Italia per condanne. Ambasciatore vede autorità Cairo

La Farnesina ha espresso indignazione per la conferma in Egitto della condanna a morte di 183 esponenti della Fratellanza Musulmana e le pesanti pene decise per un gruppo di giornalisti di Al Jazeera. L’ambasciatore al Cairo ha incontrato nei giorni scorsi esponenti del governo egiziano per ricordare che l’Italia da anni si batte per una […]

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Press Releases
21 June 2014
Siria: Mogherini, garantire distribuzione aiuti umanitari e sicurezza volontari

L’Italia sostiene l’appello del Movimento Internazionale di Croce Rossa e Mezzaluna Rossa per l’accesso delle organizzazioni umanitarie in Siria e la tutela degli operatori. È necessario che “tutte le parti in conflitto rispettino i principi fondamentali delle Convenzioni di Ginevra e del diritto internazionale”, ha detto il ministro degli Esteri, Federica Mogherini, “a partire dalla […]

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Press Releases
21 June 2014
Siria: Mogherini, garantire distribuzione aiuti umanitari e sicurezza volontari

Italy sustains the International Red Cross and Red Crescent appeal calling for humanitarian access to Syria and the defence of all volunteers. It is necessary “that all parties to the conflict respect the basic principles of the Geneva Convention and international law”, foreign minister Federica said, “beginning with the protection of healthcare workers”. The Red […]

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Press Releases
1 June 2014
Priests released: Mogherini “overjoyed” by the news

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini has confirmed the news of the release of two Italian priests, Gianantonio Allegri e Giampaolo Marta, who were kidnapped on 5 April 2014 along with a Canadian nun from the Tchere mission in Maroua diocese, in northern Cameroon. Sister Gilberte Bussière was also freed. “I’m overjoyed. I wish first of all […]

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Press Releases
20 May 2014
UN Human Rights: CIDU public consultation

The United Nations launched procedures by which it examines the human rights commitments of all EU Member Countries for Italy. The Interministerial Human Rights Committee (CIDU) opened a public consultation ahead of the drafting of a national report to be submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 15 […]

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