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Press Releases
19 June 2013
Deputy Minister Pistelli meets with Togo President

The crisis in Mali, terrorist infiltration, cross-border crime and, more in general, the political and financial situation in Western Africa were the main topics of discussion in Deputy Minister Lapo Pistelli’s meeting in Rome today with the President of Togo, Faure Essoziman Gnassinbé. Expressing his deep concern over the proliferation of terrorist cells in the […]

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6 June 2013
Italia-Egitto: primo media forum al Cairo (in translation)

L’esito della transizione in Egitto è fondamentale non solo per la stabilità del Paese, ma anche di tutto il mondo arabo. Si finirà per determinare il successo o il fallimento dell’Islam politico. Gli aspetti economici e politici della transizione politica egiziana e della sua dimensione regionale sono stati al centro della prima riunione del media […]

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6 June 2013
SIRIA – Political solution to halt escalation, says Bonino

The path must be undertaken toward a political solution in Syria to avoid the risk of the conflict spreading across the region and the proliferation of weapons. On this Minister Emma Bonino and Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin agreed today in a meeting at the foreign ministry in Rome mainly focused on the Middle […]

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Interviews
6 June 2013
Bonino: «Europe is confused. I’m not » (Tempi)

“When they called me I was in Egypt, and thought I had retired”. According to her, Emma Bonino had no idea she would be called upon to be Minister for Foreign Affairs on the cusp of turning 65. Her curriculum vitae is a full one. While her political activism and civil rights advocacy in Italy […]

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Press Releases
5 June 2013
Egypt: Foreign Ministry concern over sentencing of foreign NGO members

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed concern over the Cairo Administrative Court’s sentencing of 43 members of foreign non-governmental organizations, 27 of whom were judged in absentia, to a period of detention varying from 1 to 5 years in prison, and to close the Egypt-based offices of 5 NGOs that include the Konrad Adenauer Institute, […]

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Press Releases
5 June 2013
Minister Bonino meets with Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel Ze’ev Elkin

Bilateral relations and regional developments, particularly the crisis in Syria, were the main topics of discussion in a meeting today in Rome between Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino and Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel Ze’ev Elkin. Minister Bonino and Deputy Minister Elkin discussed the very positive trend in the bilateral partnership, not least in […]

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Interviews
5 June 2013
Bonino: «The EU must speak up, Turkish democracy is at stake» (Il Mattino)

Water cannons trained directly at people, demonstrators forced to seek asylum at Amnesty International offices in Istanbul and Ankara, a tragic death toll and the seat of Premier Erdogan’s government party in blazes: Are we facing a new crisis of democracy in Turkey? Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino seems to be ruling out the […]

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Press Releases
5 June 2013
First meeting of “Women in Diplomacy” (“WID”) held at the Farnesina

The first meeting of the “Women in Diplomacy” (WID) Committee was held today at the foreign ministry in Rome. Created in May and chaired by Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino, the Committee’s goal is to advance the role of women in diplomacy and foreign policy at both national and international levels. This first meeting […]

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4 June 2013
Archi a NY per firma Trattato su commercio armi (in translation)

“L’Italia è convinta che questo trattato fornirà un importante contributo al mantenimento della sicurezza internazionale”. E’ quanto ha sottolineato il Viceministro degli Affari Esteri Bruno Archi in occasione dell’apertura alla firma dello storico Trattato internazionale per il regolamento del commercio delle armi convenzionali, approvato lo scorso 2 aprile dall’Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite con una […]

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Press Releases
4 June 2013
Deep concern over the news from Turkey

“The news coming from Turkey is a source of deep concern, and the fact that the tensions of recent days have resulted in deaths is very serious”. The statement came from Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino, according to whom “excessive use of force by the police cannot be an acceptable response to the protests”. […]

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