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9 December 2013

Human Rights: Minister Bonino participates in first plenary session of the Interministerial Committee (CIDU)

Minister Emma Bonino opened the first plenary session of the Interministerial Committee on Human Rights today at the foreign ministry in Rome. The committee was reformed in September after having been eliminated by the 2012 spending review. In the words of the head of Italian diplomacy, the CIDU “will make it possible to continue with […]

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9 December 2013

Bonino meets with the foreign press – Ukraine must avoid civil war. Last chance in Middle East

In Ukraine “the absolute priority is to avoid civil war and calm a situation that could become explosive”, asserted Minister Emma Bonino in a meeting with the foreign press, specifying that a representative of the European Union would be in Kiev in the coming days. “Europe will try for new negotiations”, she explained, expressing the […]

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6 December 2013

Mandela: his lesson of great intellectual honesty is useful to everyone, says Bonino

“What I wish to recall about him is his great intellectual honesty. He gave due credit to De Klerk for overcoming apartheid, laying the foundations, as he acknowledged his adversary, for what went on to become the approach of his entire presidency: reconciliation. This remains a very useful lesson even nowadays, and in many countries”. […]

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4 December 2013

Marò; colloquio alla Farnesina Valensise-Gupta: procedimento in India si concluda sollecitamente

Today, 4 December 2013, the Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved the agenda to find an appropriate and rapid solution to the case of Navy Riflemen Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone. The Secretary General of the Farnesina, Michele Valensise, has brought the decision to the attention of the Ambassador of India, Basant Kumar Gupta, who had […]

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4 December 2013

NATO Ministerial – Afghanistan: Karzai urged to sign agreement with USA soon

“NATO foreign ministers were unanimous in urging the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the United States as soon as possible”. This was Minister Bonino’s comment at the NATO Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. She described the agreement, which concerns the presence of American troops in Afghanistan post-2014, as […]

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4 December 2013

Online public consultation closes on 9 December

The online public consultation on the “Destinazione Italia Plan”, the government’s programme of 50 measures to attract inward investment, will close on 9 December 2013. The government adopted the Plan on 19 September, at the proposal of Prime Minister Letta and Ministers Emma Bonino and Flavio Zanonato. Help identify the priorities The document was drawn […]

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3 December 2013

Incidents in Warsaw: Bonino meets Polish colleague

Foreign Minister Emma Bonino has met the Polish Deputy Foreign Minister, Henryka Mościcka-Dendys, for an exchange of views on the recent arrest of fans of the Lazio football team. Minister Bonino also reiterated the Italian government’s concern over the case. The meeting took place in the margins of today’s NATO ministerial in Brussels. At Minister […]

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2 December 2013

Incidents in Warsaw: Bonino asks Polish counterpart for clarification of a case that still needs further investigation.

In a declaration issued at the end of the Italian-Israeli bilateral, Minister Bonino returned to the case of the Lazio fans arrested in Warsaw. “Today I’ve asked my Polish counterpart, Sikorski, for clarification of a case that still needs to be investigated in full and which, as things stand, sees 22 Italian citizens in prison […]

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2 December 2013

Longitude: “Holy Glasnost”

The cover of the new issue of “Longitude”, the magazine edited by Pialuisa Bianco and on sale from 6 December, is dedicated to Pope Francis and his pontificate. The editorial by Minister Bonino discusses the role of diplomacy in Italy’s growth and diplomacy. Read more, in Italian.

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2 December 2013

Incidents in Warsaw: Embassy making extraordinary efforts to ensure Italian nationals are released as soon as possible

“The circumstances leading to the arrest of the Lazio fans and the Polish judicial authorities’ decision to hold 22 people for trial certainly need to be investigated. I wish to clarify, however, that over 100 people were arrested and taken to various police stations in Warsaw and our Embassy is making an extraordinary effort to […]

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2 December 2013

Nota Frnesina Tifosi laziali a Varsavia

“About 60 Lazio fans are still under arrest and are being held for summary trial by the Polish judicial authorities. We cannot rule out the possibility that some of them have been deprived of their personal freedom for committing offences of varying degrees of gravity. I have instructed our Ambassador in Poland to speak to […]

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29 November 2013

Rome – Constantine and the Edict of Tolerance at the Markets of Trajan

A man who 1700 years ago had already understood the value of tolerance: that was how Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino described Constantine, Emperor of the Western World, during the opening of the exhibition “’Konstantin. The Edict of Constantine 1700 years later. Works by Veliko Mihajlovic’ at the Markets of Trajan in Rome. Bonino, […]

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