Ministri precedenti

Press Releases

10 February 2016

Meeting of Minister Gentiloni with the trade unions representing the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Minister Gentiloni met today with the trade unions representing all categories of workers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Italy is increasingly becoming a key player in the international arena on many matters involving counter-terrorism, economic diplomacy, the United Nations and the European Union. Minister Gentiloni said that on all of these […]

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Interviews

10 February 2016

Gentiloni: «The horror of the Foibe massacres must teach Europe to integrate and have trust» (Il Messaggero)

Ten years have now elapsed since the declaration of the “Day of Remembrance” for the victims of the Foibe massacres and the exodus from Fiume-Rijeka, the Giulia region and Dalmatia, the tragedy that involved the Italian minorities living in the eastern Adriatic. It is a sufficient lapse of time to draw a first balance and […]

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9 February 2016

E.U. Founding Countries meet in Rome

The Foreign Affairs Ministers of the six E.U. Founding Countries discuss migration challenges and integration at Villa Madama The Foreign Ministers of the six Founding Countries of the European Union (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) are meeting today at Villa Madama in Rome to  discuss the future of the European Union and […]

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Press Releases

8 February 2016

Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Founding Countries of the European Union

Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni will host a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the six founders of the European Union (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) tomorrow at Villa Madama in Rome,  in anticipation of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome signed on 25 March, […]

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Interviews

8 February 2016

Gentiloni: «Italy won’t be satisfied with a convenient truth; Egypt must help our agents» (La Repubblica)

Italy demands the truth and will not accept convenient versions on the death of Giulio Regeni. For Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, no realpolitik reasons apply here; the people responsible for the crime must be punished. Mr Minister, will we come to know the truth on the murder? «We have asked and obtained that investigative agents […]

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Press Releases

7 February 2016

Nord Korea: missile launch is a new provocation and a threat to international peace and security

“The launch of a long-range missile last night constitutes a further provocation by North Korea which, only one month after running a nuclear test, has once again openly violated the Security Council resolutions, jeopardising international and regional peace and security,” said Paolo Gentiloni, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, after receiving news of […]

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Interviews

4 February 2016

Gentiloni: «Migrants and ISIS, we need more cooperation» (Vita)

Handling immigration at national but especially European level; the political transition in Libya; the conflict in Syria; ISIS. Foreign policy will be at the centre of international debate in the upcoming months. With the appointment of Mario Giro as Deputy Minister to complete the institutional framework, what role can cooperation policies play on each one […]

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Press Releases

4 February 2016

Minister Gentiloni expresses grief over the disappearance of Italian Giulio Regeni

The Italian Government has been informed of the tragic fate presumably suffered by Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo. While awaiting official confirmation from the Egyptian authorities, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni expressed his own and the Government’s grief to the student’s family who are presently in Cairo and have been given the unconfirmed news. His […]

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3 February 2016

Food safety and security: Gentiloni’s first visit to the World Food Programme

Food security and a “zero-hunger world” are the themes still resonating following upon the efforts of the Italian government to give these issues prominence at the Expo Milan 2015 exhibition. These were also topics on the agenda for the first official visit of Paolo Gentiloni, the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, to […]

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Interviews

3 February 2016

Gentiloni: «Global challenge to terrorism» (L’Unità)

To “overhaul” the international anti-Daesh strategy and evaluate the new challenges posed by terrorism. This was the agenda of the Small Group Ministerial Meeting of the Coalition to counter Daesh, which gave rise to three political messages that are due to guide future actions. The first concerns the results achieved up to now. The anti-Daesh […]

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Press Releases

2 February 2016

Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL/Da’esh

1. Foreign Ministers of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to counter ISIL/Da’esh met today in Rome at the invitation of Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni to take stock of the Coalition’s work and to accelerate our unified efforts to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL/Da’esh, dismantle its networks, and counter its global ambitions. The […]

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2 February 2016

Anti-Daesh Summit at the Foreign Ministry – “We have made progress but the threat persists”

In the fight against Daesh, we have made “important progress, but we are facing a very resilient organisation and we must therefore not underestimate it,” said Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, in his opening remarks to the third Ministerial Meeting of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, convened today at the Foreign […]

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