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Press Releases

12 July 2013

Archi meets with Russian counterpart Ryabkov on G8 / G20 concerns and disarmament

On the invitation of his Russian counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Bruno Archi held a long and cordial meeting in Moscow with Russian Deputy Minister Sergey Ryabkov on the multilateral concerns of the G8/G20 and issues regarding disarmament. With regard to the former, the Deputy Ministers exchanged national viewpoints on multilateral G8 topics after the recent […]

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11 April 2013

G8 Ministerial Meeting in London – Syria: maintain positive spirit of Rome, says Monti

“The positive spirit of the meeting in Rome on 28 February must be maintained in order to foster the conditions for a timely political solution, with Assad’s exit from the scene and the launch of a transition toward democracy and the rule of law”. Prime Minister and interim Foreign Minister Mario Monti spoke at the […]

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Press Releases

2 February 2013

Nucleare iraniano: Terzi a collega Teheran, tornare subito al tavolo negoziale. Incontro a Monaco a margine 49ma Conferenza sulla Sicurezza.

Nucleare iraniano: Terzi a collega Teheran, tornare subito al tavolo negoziale. Incontro a Monaco a margine 49ma Conferenza sulla Sicurezza. Il Ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi ha incontrato oggi il collega iraniano Ali Akbar Salehi per manifestargli la forte aspettativa italiana che Teheran risponda positivamente all’invito dell’Alto Rappresentante UE Katherine Ashton ad un incontro a […]

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27 April 2012

EU-ASEAN SUMMIT (Brunei) – Terzi: Italy proposes mention of cooperation on piracy in conclusions

In the final conclusions of the EU-ASEAN Summit under way in Brunei, Italy has successfully promoted, “here as it did at the G8, the insertion of references in two separate parts of the text, to cooperation between the EU and ASEAN against piracy, not only in generic terms but with explicit mention of the international […]

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13 April 2012

G8: appeal to UN for North Korea and Syria – Italy’s piracy proposal embraced, highly significant, says Terzi

The countries of the G8 agreed to appeal to the UN Security Council for “appropriate measures” against North Korea for its attempt to send a Kwangmyongsong-3 Satellite into orbit; the foreign ministers also urged the UN to send observers to Syria to verify and ensure implementation of the Kofi Annan plan, since what has been […]

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13 April 2012

Dichiarazione Ministri Esteri G8 (in translation)

We, the G-8 Foreign Ministers, condemn the launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), which is a violation of UN Security Council Resolutions 1695, 1718, and 1874. Sharing the view that the launch undermines regional peace and stability, we call on the DPRK to abstain from further launches using ballistic missile technology or […]

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12 April 2012

G8: Support and agreement on the incident involving Italian marines, says Terzi – Concrete proposals on counter-piracy

“My G8 colleagues offered their full comprehension and support for the principles that Italy has stated unequivocally regarding this situation”, said Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi in the margins of the G8 ministerial meeting in Washington, in the context of which he had raised the issue of piracy. “I referred explicitly to the question […]

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Interviews

11 April 2012

Rome puts the issue of piracy on the G8 agenda

Freedom of navigation in international waters and therefore indirectly the issue of piracy, will be on the agenda of the G8 foreign ministers meeting today and tomorrow in Washington, in preparation for the summit of heads of state and government to be held at Camp David in mid-May. Italy asked to have this point added […]

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10 April 2012

Syria: uncertainty over Annan plan

The road to a solution in the Syrian crisis is still a rocky one. Damascus has annouced having begun to implement UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan’s peace plan but ,on the day specified for withdrawal of troops and heavy artillery, the Syrian Human Rights Watch reported that government forces had bombarded in […]

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10 April 2012

G8: military protection in counter-piracy missions, says Terzi – Arab Spring, “let’s not wait until the fall comes”

At the G8 meeting in Washington on 11 and 12 April, “I will remind my colleagues of the urgent need to protect our troops deployed in counter-piracy missions”, asserted Minister Giulio Terzi, who will be participating on those days in the G8 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in the United States, not least in relation to the […]

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