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In detail
19 August 2013
The world needs the rule of law, says Bonino

Minister Emma Bonino recalled the courage of humanitarian workers around the world in a video message for World Humanitarian Day 2013: “In armed conflict millions of persons are wounded or killed, forced to leave their homes, discriminated on the basis of gender or sexual orientation, and deprived of their social and political rights”. The children, […]

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Interviews
19 August 2013
Bonino: «The EU and the US reduced by the Saudis in this crisis» (La Stampa)

ROME «Minister Bonino, you have a deep understanding of Egypt and its political dynamics. What is going to happen to the democratic process launched by the Arab Spring? And how will the Muslim Brotherhood react to being backed into a corner by the military? «We never laboured under the illusion that the democratic transition in […]

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Press Releases
16 August 2013
Minister Emma Bonino condemns Beirut bombing

Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino strongly condemned a bloody attack yesterday in a densely populated suburb south of Beirut, expressing her solidarity with the Lebanese people and government. The bombers’ intention to indiscriminately strike the civilian population, the minister insisted, makes this an especially hideous attack that has left dozens dead and is the […]

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Press Releases
16 August 2013
Egypt: Bonino cites dramatic news pointing to human rights violations

Today has brought further news of violent clashes resulting in an increasingly heavy toll in human lives. The news of the use of brutal and unacceptable force by the interim authorities is giving rise to an alarming picture of human rights violations in stark contrast with the government and army’s fundamental duty to protect its […]

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Press Releases
14 August 2013
Egitto: Bonino

“I am deeply pained at what is going on in Egypt, and at the loss of human life there. I was hoping that the squares where the sit-ins took place would empty out once the parties had reached an agreement, and not through the intervention of the police, which doesn’t make it any easier to […]

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Press Releases
13 August 2013
Death of Prince Johan Friso: Bonino grieves for a dear friend

“I am grieved at the loss of a very dear friend, Johan Friso, and share his family’s pain with deepest affection”, Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino stated upon learning of the death of the Dutch prince with whom she had had a deep personal friendship. “In these painful months of suffering”, Emma Bonino continued, […]

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In detail
12 August 2013
Minister Bonino on Radio Radicale

Bonino on Syria: the goal is a conference; hoping for opposition stability “The goal of a Geneva conference was reiterated at our meeting with the Russians in Rome. We agree that there is no military solution to the conflict, even if the Russians are supporting the Assad regime and, therefore, there is divergence on how […]

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Interviews
9 August 2013
Bonino: «Riallacciati i contatti Cauto ottimismo per Quirico» (La Stampa)

Esattamente quattro mesi fa si perdevano i contatti con Domenico Quirico, entrato .in Siria dal confine libanese per raccontare il fronte più avanzato della guerra civile. Per otto settimane non abbiamo avuto nessuna notizia del nostro inviato, scomparso nell’area di Homs, una delle più terribili del conflitto siriano, un silenzio angoscioso rotto finalmente il 6 […]

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Interviews
9 August 2013
Bonino: «Riallacciati i contatti Cauto ottimismo per Quirico» (La Stampa)

Four months ago exactly, Domenico Quirico, who had entered Syria from the Lebanese border to report on the most advanced front of the civil war, disappeared. For eight weeks we had no news of our correspondent, who was last seen in the Homs district, one of the worst in the Syrian conflict. That agonising silence […]

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