Ministri precedenti

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16 May 2014

Mogherini at the UN: discussion with Ban Ki-moon – Talk at “Council on Foreign Relations”

The campaign against the death penalty will be one of the priorities of the Italian Presidency of the European Union, which starts on 1 July 2014. The point was made by Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, one of the USA’s most distinguished think tanks. The topic was […]

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15 May 2014

Syria: Mogherini supports referral to ICC – “Friends of Syria”: support for opposition, presidential elections “surreal”

Referral of Syria to the International Criminal Court, completion of the removal of Syrian chemical weapons, support for the moderate opposition and denunciation of the presidential elections planned for 3 June. These were the key points of the communiqué approved by the “Friends of Syria” ministerial meeting held in London on 15 May 2015 and […]

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Press Releases

15 May 2014

Ambassador Zannier re-appointed as OSCE Secretary General: Minister Mogherini welcomes decision

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Federica Mogherini, has welcomed the news that the Ministerial Council of the Vienna-based Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has re-appointed Ambassador Lamberto Zannier as Secretary General. The re-appointment justly recognises the work of the Italian diplomat who, to broad acclaim, has revitalised the role of […]

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14 May 2014

Mogherini in the USA – meeting with Kerry. Talk with Albright: more women in politics

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini’s first official visit to the United States continued with a meeting with the former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, a discussion of the European elections and an interview on the Ukraine crisis on CNN International. Minister Mogherini also mentioned the White House’s keen interest in EXPO 2015 and a possible participation […]

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Press Releases

14 May 2014

Soma mining tragedy: Minister Mogherini sends her condolences to Turkish colleague, Davutoglu

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini has sent a message of condolences over the tragedy that struck the mine in Soma yesterday, 13 May 2014, taking a heavy toll of death and injury. Minister Mogherini expressed Italy’s solidarity with the Turkish people, and sent an offer of all necessary assistance and a special message of sympathy to […]

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14 May 2014

Mogherini–Kerry meeting – First official mission to the USA for Minister Mogherini

The first official visit by Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini to the United States opened with a wide-ranging discussion with the American Secretary of State John Kerry. Topics examined included the crisis in Ukraine (“we must support the national dialogue”); the stalemate in Syria; the two Italian marines detained in India; and the schoolgirls abducted in […]

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12 May 2014

Mogherini at EU Foreign Affairs Council – Ukraine: priority is to halt the violence. Support for OSCE roadmap

“Europe’s priority is to ensure that the violence on the ground is reined in and brought to an end”. These were the words of Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini on her arrival in Brussels for the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council. She defined this goal as “the lodestar of our work today. We shall continue to […]

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Interviews

12 May 2014

The need for a peace institute (European Voice)

We, the Foreign Ministers of nine European countries – from with in the EU, as well as outside–have joined together to launch the European Institute of Peace (EIP) to help tackle some of the challenges of today’s world. Tomorrow Monday, in Brussels, we will present the first President ever of the Institute. Generations of hostility […]

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9 May 2014

Impetus for new period in European politics, says Mogherini – Minister’s address in Florence on “The State of the Union”

In her address in Florence on “The State of the Union”, Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini called for a new period in European politics, not least through the forthcoming elections for the European Parliament. Italian Presidency: rapid transition in “government” of Europe The growth of populism is the natural outcome of 10 years of political choices […]

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8 May 2014

Mogherini at Italian-German Forum – Growth and jobs the priority for Italy’s EU Presidency

Employment, especially youth employment, and growth will be the strategic priority for Italy’s Presidency of the European Union, to signpost the direction to follow over the next 5 years. The point was reiterated by Minister Mogherini during her presentation at the second Italian-German Economic Forum in Rome on 8 May 2014. “We want the first […]

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8 May 2014

EU-Balkans: Mogherini in Thessaloniki – Italian Presidency will work for region’s European integration

“We are here in Thessaloniki with the Greek Presidency to say that the Italian Presidency will take up the baton and work to ensure that the Western Balkans can make rapid and concrete progress on the road to European integration. It is one of our precise interests for the stability, peace and economic development of […]

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8 May 2014

Nigeria – EU coordination for girls’ release, urges Mogherini

Proposal to be formalised at Monday’s Foreign Affairs Council: coordination needed, not a leading role for any one country “Our interest is not so much seeing any one country play a leading role, but results: the release of the girls abducted in Nigeria”. This was the comment by Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, who will propose […]

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