Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini has met the new United Nations Special Envoy to Libya, Bernardino León, in Brussels. León, who officially begins his new role today, was on his way back to New York from Libya. He and Mogherini discussed the central role that the UN must play in fostering stabilisation and dialogue by all […]
Read moreThe Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Federica Mogherini, views as counterproductive the decision by the Israeli Civil Administration in the Occupied Territories to take possession of the land belonging to 5 Palestinian villages. Israel’s probable intention is to build a new settlement on the land in the Bethlehem area. As the Minister pointed […]
Read moreAs soon as she was informed that Massimiliano Latorre had been taken ill, Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini contacted the Marine’s companion Paola Moschetti to offer her own solidarity and that of the government’s. “We are with Massimiliano Latorre, to whom I extend my best wishes for a speedy recovery”, she said. “As we […]
Read more«The task of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs is to outline a strategic approach that ensures an incisive EU role in the world, and to seek European partners’ consensus on it. I believe that there is a great deal of room for Europe in foreign policy-making. More than ever before, all the critical challenges […]
Read moreMinister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Federica Mogherini wished new Turkish Premier Ahmet Davutoglu and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu well. “I am sure that the already excellent collaboration between Italy and Turkey on the many international dossiers that concern both nations will continue”, Mogherini said. At the same time, she added, “together with other […]
Read moreThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has outlined an approximately 1.5 million euro emergency intervention programme to fight the Ebola epidemic affecting some Western African countries. The Italian Cooperation has earmarked 240,000 euro for the World Health Organisation (WHO) to send doctors, medical supplies and equipment, and boost epidemiological surveillance and provide logistical […]
Read moreToday’s alarming news once again from Ukraine was the focus of a telephone meeting that Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini held today with her Ukraine colleague Pavel Klimkin. The chief Kiev diplomat voiced his concerns to Mogherini over developments on the ground, despite the hopes sparked for the launch of negotiations after the recent […]
Read moreAccording to Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, approval of the UN Security Council resolution on Libya confirms the central role that the United Nations must play in settling the crisis. “At this dramatic moment so decisive to the country’s destiny, the resolution once again urges all parties to engage in inclusive political dialogue and […]
Read moreAccording to Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, the agreement on a ceasefire in Gaza, proposed by Egypt and announced this evening, will pave the way to political negotiations capable of leading to the resolution of the Middle East conflict. “After seven weeks of expectations, all too often disappointed, it is my hope that the […]
Read moreLa situazione a Gaza e in Libia è al centro di una serie di telefonate che il ministro degli Esteri, Federica Mogherini, ha in programma in questi giorni con i colleghi di diversi Paesi della Regione che oggi si sono incontrati al Cairo e che sono impegnati come l’Italia nella ricerca di una soluzione politica […]
Read moreMinister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini renewed her urgent appeal to the parties to the conflict in Libya, and to the entire international community, to seek a settlement that would lead to ending the violence and rebuilding a nation of democratic institutions. “Libya is at the most difficult point since the revolution and, as always, […]
Read moreMinister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini expressed her condolences on the death of Lithuanian honorary consul in Ukraine in a letter to her colleague in Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius: “I was profoundly aggrieved at the news of the death of the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine”, Mogherini wrote. “In condemning this act […]
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