Ministri precedenti

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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4 February 2016

Minister Gentiloni in London for Syria donor conference

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, is in London today to attend the Conference of Syria Donor Countries that will meet in order to raise more funds to tackle the present extremely serious humanitarian crisis. In addition to raising the financial resources needed to respond to the ongoing crisis, the Conference […]

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4 February 2016

Il Ministro Gentiloni a Londra per la Conferenza dei Donatori per la Siria

Il Ministro degli Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale Paolo Gentiloni è oggi a Londra per partecipare alla Conferenza dei Paesi donatori per la Siria che si riunisce allo scopo di raccogliere ulteriori fondi per fronteggiare la gravissima crisi umanitaria in corso. Oltre a reperire le risorse finanziarie necessarie a rispondere all’attuale crisi, la Conferenza – […]

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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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Interviews

2 February 2016

Gentiloni: «There is the risk that ISIS will now move to Libya» (Il Messaggero)

Today, meeting in Rome, are the representatives of 23 Countries of the anti-ISIS coalition. The host is Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, who yesterday took stock of the situation with U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry. In December the United States had asked Italy to take part in the air strikes. Why is there some reluctance […]

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2 February 2016

Italian Foreign Ministry hosts ministerial meeting of the Coalition to Counter Daesh – Co-chaired by Gentiloni-Kerry, participants from 23 countries

The Italian Foreign Ministry opens today the Ministerial Meeting of the Global Coalition to counter Daesh/ISIL in the so-called ‘Small Group’ format, comprising the most committed countries within the broader Coalition, which are responsible for setting the political and strategic orientation of the collective effort. The meeting  is co-chaired by Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, and […]

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Press Releases

31 January 2016

Anti-Daesh summit to meet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday

The Ministerial Meeting of the Global Coalition to counter Daesh/ISIL will be held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday in the so-called ‘Small Group’ format, comprising the most committed countries within the broader global anti Daesh Coalition, which play a political and strategic leading role in the collective effort.  The meeting will be […]

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Press Releases

29 January 2016

Cooperation: the joint development cooperation committee approves its first resolutions

“Thanks to the new code of procedures, the guidelines and the procedures approved today, civil society organisations and other non-profit organisations will be able to play an active part in the Italian development cooperation system. It is an important new stage on the route to reform Italian cooperation”. Thus commented the Minister of Foreign Affairs […]

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