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Press Releases

3 December 2021

FOC 10th Anniversary Helsinki Declaration – Towards a Rules-based, Democratic and Digitally Inclusive World

Preamble  We, the Foreign Ministers of the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Member States, strongly reaffirm our commitment to protect and promote human rights for all, both online and offline, as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights instruments. Today, the FOC’s mission to promote Internet freedom and protect human […]

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Press Releases

3 December 2021

ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY NOTE – Stabbing of two Italians in New York

The Italian Foreign Ministry and the Consulate General in New York, in close collaboration with the local police, are following with the utmost attention the serial stabbing case in which one Italian was killed and another wounded. We are providing every possible assistance to the Italian who was injured and to the family members of […]

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Press Releases

1 December 2021

Support for Italian citizens following the suspension of air traffic from a number of African countries

Air traffic from South African countries has been suspended to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant.  This Foreign Ministry acted immediately, via the Unità di Crisi [the Crisis Unit] to assist our compatriots abroad. More than 200 Italians have been able to book scheduled flights where these are still available, and are currently returning to Italy. Some […]

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Press Releases

1 December 2021

FOREIGN MINISTRY NOTE – Migration cooperation: the MAECI’s commitment to the Sahel is strengthened

Two new initiatives financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Migration Fund will strengthen migration cooperation with countries in the Sahelian region, which are at the crossroads of flows towards Europe. In Mali, following the signing on 6 May of the Joint Declaration on Migration Cooperation between Minister Di Maio and Minister of Malians Abroad […]

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Events

29 November 2021

The Khaled Al Asaad Award goes to Prof. Morandi Bonacossi

On November 26, during the 23rd edition of the Mediterranean Bourse of Archeological Tourism in Paestum, Prof. Morandi Bonacossi received the “Khaled al-Asaad” International Archaeological Discovery Award  for 2020. The award is named for Khaled al-Asaad, the Director of the archeological site of Palmira who defended the cultural heritage at the cost of his life, […]

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Press Releases

27 November 2021

Foreign Ministry Note – Travel restrictions from South Africa and other southern African countries

The Foreign Ministry, through the Crisis Unit and the Embassies and Consulates on the ground, is carefully monitoring the effects of the recent ordinance issued by the Ministry of Health, which has introduced travel restrictions from South Africa and other countries in the southern African region. The Embassies involved, acting in liaison with the Crisis […]

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Press Releases

26 November 2021

Foreign Ministry Note – The Italian of Tomorrow. The States-General of Italian Language and Creativity in the World

Rome, 29 November 2021 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation International Conference Room   THE ITALIAN OF TOMORROW GLI STATI GENERALI DELLA LINGUA E CREATIVITÀ ITALIANE NEL MONDO   With the participation of His Excellency the President of Italy Mr. Sergio MATTARELLA The States-General of Italian Language and Creativity in the World will open on Monday, 29 November, at […]

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Press Releases

25 November 2021

Foreign Ministry Note – Italy rejoins the UNESCO World Heritage Committee

From today Italy is once again a member of the World Heritage Committee, the UNESCO body that is responsible, under the UNESCO Convention of 1972, for ensuring the effective and well-structured protection of World Heritage and for taking final decisions about inscriptions on the World Heritage List. Italy had been absent from the Committee for […]

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Events

25 November 2021

Experimentation of electronic voting for COMITES elections

On November 24, experimentation of the digital voting process got under way. The occasion was the elections of the Committees for Italians Abroad (COMITES) organized by the Farnesina. Electronic voting involves electors in eleven consular districts: Berlin, Munich (for the committees of Munich and Nuremberg, Marseilles, London (for the committees of London and Manchester), The […]

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Press Releases

25 November 2021

Libya: new flight for Italy brings hope to asylum seekers

Ninety-three asylum seekers from Libya landed today at Fiumicino Airport. After their arrival, they will be able to apply for refugee status, which will give them the right to protection. The asylum seekers traveled on a charter fIight of the UNHCR, the United Nations Agency for Refugees. It is the first arrival implementing a protocol […]

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Press Releases

25 November 2021

Sperimentazione voto elettronico in occasione delle elezioni Comites

È partita il 24 novembre la sperimentazione del voto digitale in occasione delle elezioni dei Comitati per gli Italiani all’estero (Comites) organizzate dalla Farnesina. La votazione elettronica coinvolge gli elettori di undici circoscrizioni consolari: Berlino, Monaco di Baviera (per i comitati di Monaco di Baviera e Norimberga), Marsiglia, Londra (per i comitati di Londra e […]

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Press Releases

25 November 2021

Press release on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

On the occasion of the 2021 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and its foreign network join the awareness-raising campaign “Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!” launched by UN Women. This year, the campaign aims at preventing all forms of violence, […]

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