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Press Releases

24 November 2020

Foreign Ministry Note – Regeni case

“With regard to the statements made today by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to the Committee of Inquiry into the murder of Giulio Regeni, the Foreign Ministry wishes to point out that the Italian Government and our security services were informed soon after Giulio’s disappearance on 25 January 2016.  Furthermore, all the steps taken with the Egyptian Authorities at the highest levels are widely documented and made known to […]

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Press Releases

24 November 2020

Di Maio: satisfaction for Grandi’s renewal of mandate at UNHCR

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expressed great satisfaction with the renewal of Filippo Grandi’s mandate as UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for the January 2021 – June 2023 period.  “This renewal of mandate is a recognition of the excellent work carried out by Filippo Grandi in recent years and of his […]

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Press Releases

16 November 2020

Foreign Ministry Note – Western Sahara

Italy is carefully monitoring the tensions in the El Guerguerat buffer zone in Western Sahara and urges all parties involved to exercise restraint and avoid the use of force, in full compliance with the ceasefire agreements in force since 1991. This situation highlights the urgency of a prompt appointment of the new Personal Envoy of […]

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Press Releases

11 November 2020

Foreign Ministry Note – Jeddah attack

Today an Italian diplomat, our Consul in Jeddah, Stefano Stucci, was involved in the cowardly terrorist attack targeting the city’s non-Muslim cemetery, which Italy has unreservedly condemned. “I spoke to Stefano on the phone to express my personal and the entire Foreign Ministry’s sympathy. Fortunately, he is well but, at times like this, our thoughts […]

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Press Releases

30 October 2020

FOREIGN MINISTRY NOTE – Italian exports see growth

In September 2020, for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic, Italian exports to non-EU member countries increased once again by 3%, year-over-year, as certified yesterday by the office for national statistics ISTAT. The data regarding exports to some of our main outlet markets (outside the EU) were particularly outstanding: Italian exports to […]

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Press Releases

28 October 2020

Italy pledges first EUR 5 million funding to CEPI to advance COVID-19 vaccine development efforts

The Government of Italy has today formally joined the Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), contributing €5 million (US $5.8 million)—the first part of an overall pledge of €10 million (US $11.7 million)—in investment to support CEPI and the development of COVID-19 vaccine candidates. The financial contribution, made through Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and […]

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Press Releases

19 October 2020

Note of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Nagorno Karabakh

Italy welcomes the renewed humanitarian truce agreed between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the weekend with the mediation of France in its capacity as co-chair of the Minsk Group and calls on the parties to respect their commitments, putting an end to any breach of the agreement. We express our condolences for the many civilian casualties. […]

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In detail

15 October 2020

NOTA FARNESINA

With reference to the erroneous translation of the title of the press release of 13th October “Signature of Artemis Accords for the exploration of space. Great satisfaction of Undersecretary Di Stefano”, it should be noted that it was a mere clerical error that occurred during the loading of the text and was then quickly corrected. We apologise to […]

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Press Releases

12 October 2020

Third annual meeting of the Joint Development Cooperation Committee

Today the Foreign Ministry hosted the third annual meeting of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation, chaired by Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re. The Joint Committee approved a package of initiatives worth more than 25 million euros, aimed at cooperation initiatives in African, Asian and Latin American countries. In her introductory speech, the Vice Minister […]

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Events

8 October 2020

Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Carabinieri Corps on the training of personnel going abroad

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) and the Carabinieri Corps have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to start a cooperation in the field of training of the respective personnel destined to serve in the Italian diplomatic-consular network. The protocol was signed this afternoon in Rome, at the General Command of the Carabinieri, […]

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Press Releases

30 September 2020

Appointment of Vincenzo Del Monaco as Head of the OSCE Mission in Tirana

Italy warmly welcomes the news of the appointment of the Italian diplomat Vincenzo Del Monaco as Head of the OSCE Mission in Tirana. The success of Italy’s candidacy is an important recognition of Italy’s active role in the OSCE – an organization to which our country is one of the main contributors in terms of […]

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Press Releases

28 September 2020

Virtual meeting of the Ministers of the Countries belonging to the “Uniting for Consensus” (UfC) Group

PRESS RELEASE  Ministers of the Countries belonging to the “Uniting for Consensus” (UfC) Group held a virtual meeting today to assess the state of the UN Security Council reform process. While profoundly impacted by the tragic Covid-19 pandemic that allowed only two meetings to take place, the last Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) on the reform of the Security Council confirmed […]

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