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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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