Ministri precedenti

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15 April 2014

Balkans: Italy encourages closer EU integration – Mogherini meets Luksic. “I plan to visit region at start of EU Presidency”

“The Italian government supports Montenegro’s closer integration with the EU and with NATO. The Italian Presidency has a role to play in the western Balkans by encouraging European integration for the entire region”. This was Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini’s comment in the joint press conference with her Montenegrin opposite number, Igor Luksic, at the end […]

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14 April 2014

Ukraine: keep dialogue open, says Mogherini – EU ministers call on Syria to fulfil obligations to destroy chemical weapons

“We must ensure that the window of dialogue offered by Thursday’s meeting remains open – it is the only opening we have to find a solution to the situation in Ukraine. We need to ensure, in short, that we do not give anyone an excuse not to attend the meeting in Geneva”. This was Foreign […]

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14 April 2014

EU Foreign Affairs Council agenda – Mogherini, concern for Ukraine. Bosnia-Herzegovina integration, Syria

“No, I don’t think so”, was Minister Federica Mogherini’s response, as she arrived in Luxembourg for the EU Foreign Affairs Council, to journalists’ who asked if it was time to go on to “phase 3” of the sanctions against Russia. But, the minister asserted that it was “a situation whose developments in recent days and […]

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Interviews

12 April 2014

Mogherini: “Dialogue with Putin on Kiev. A way for everyone to win” (L’Unità)

In her European, Mediterranean and even Latin American agenda the foreign minister insists on an agreed solution on with Russia. From the Ukraine crisis to the tormented Mediterranean, European challenges and renewed interest in Latin America, the hottest dossiers on the international scenario were the focus of Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini’s interview with […]

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Press Releases

10 April 2014

Nuclear disarmament: Mogherini in Stockholm

Federica Mogherini arrived in Stockholm yesterday for the first visit by an Italian forcing minister to Sweden since 1996. After holding a bilateral meeting with Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, is attending a meeting today of the Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

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8 April 2014

Mogherini briefs Schengen Committee – A visa every 15 seconds in 2013; 12,000 lives saved, but EU needed

“In 2013 Italy became the number-two Schengen country for number of visas issued, with a total of 2,125,490. We cam in second only to France (2,471,220 visas issued) and, for the first time, surpassed Germany (slightly more than 2 million). Our 172 authorised missions issued an average of one visa every 15 seconds, which is […]

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7 April 2014

Lebanon: record refugees, resources at risk – Italy’s contribution to stability and security

According to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres, the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has surpassed the one million mark. These in addition to the over one and a half million living in Syria’s neighbouring countries and the approximately 6.5 million internally displaced persons. “A disastrous record”, the Commissioner added, “aggravated by […]

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Press Releases

5 April 2014

Middle East: Mogherini, serious concern for the latest developments in the Peace Process

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini expressed deep concern over the latest developments in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The Italian government expressed the hope that the leadership of both countries would return to the table and refrain from further initiatives that could hinder dialogue. Italy continues to wholeheartedly support the American mediation and that the […]

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5 April 2014

Mogherini at informal EU ministers meeting on Ukraine crisis, “keep calm and carry on”. Focus on Mediterranean

“Keep calm and carry on” was how Minister Mogherini summarised the informal EU foreign ministers meeting on Ukraine held in Athens, considering “phase two” of the sanctions sufficient. The third phase is being prepared but will only go into effect if further steps are taken to destabilise Ukraine”, said Mogherini, explaining however that it must […]

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3 April 2014

Venezuela: support for dialogue from Mogherini – Under-Secretary Giro in Caracas – protecting Italian community a priority

“We firmly support the efforts of Latin America’s organisations to open a constructive dialogue between government and opposition. The present situation in Venezuela cannot continue”. These were the words of Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, announcing that Under-Secretary Mario Giro is in Caracas today, 3 April 2014, to examine events closely and meet the Italian community. […]

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3 April 2014

Spending review: Farnesina one of lowest-spending ministries, says Mogherini

As part of the government spending review the Farnesina has proposed savings totalling 108 million euros over three years, with initiatives including “a review of the economic conditions of personnel abroad, a keenly felt topic to which we are responding”. These were some of the comments made by Minister Mogherini at the hearing before the […]

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2 April 2014

Ukraine, Mogherini at NATO Ministerial -Kiev must not be faced with East-West choice. Marines, Syrian crisis

NATO realises that support from the international community is needed to ensure that Ukraine is not faced with a choice between East and West, between its relationship with the EU and that with Russia. This was Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini’s comment at the close of the NATO Ministerial, at which Ukraine was a key issue […]

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