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Press Releases

19 November 2024

Tenth resolution for a moratorium on executions adopted at the UN. Tajani: Italy in the front line against the death penalty

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani welcomed the vote in the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee on the tenth Resolution for a universal moratorium on death penalty. Compared to 2022, the number of countries supporting its adoption – including Italy – grew from 125 to 131, striking a new record. Minister […]

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Press Releases

16 November 2024

Deputy Minister Cirielli’s participation in COP29 in Baku

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Edmondo Cirielli, participated in the COP29 events in Baku, promoting Italy’s actions for resilience and international cooperation on climate. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Edmondo Cirielli, spoke yesterday at COP 29 in Baku, participating in a series of key events […]

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Press Releases

15 November 2024

Telephone conversation between Minister Tajani and the Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs Gideon Saar

Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani had a first telephone contact with the new Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs Gideon Saar. During the call, Minister Tajani first of all insisted on the need to guarantee the safety of the soldiers involved in the UN mission in Lebanon […]

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Diplomatic Network

21 October 2024

United Nations in Vienna, exhibition on the fight against transnational organised crime

On the occasion of the Conference of the Parties to the Palermo Convention (United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime), Italy promoted an exhibition at the United Nations Headquarters in Vienna illustrating our country’s experience in the fight against transnational organised crime, organised by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Internal Affairs and […]

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Interviews

12 October 2024

Antonio Tajani: «Our military is not Hezbollah, nobody drives the UN away with bombs» (La Stampa)

«The request to move from the Lebanon was rejected: it is not an Italian choice to stay there, but of the United Nations. Our soldiers are not Hezbollah terrorists, it is unacceptable that they were attacked by the Israeli army». While in Alba (Cuneo), where he was a guest at the inauguration of the International White Truffle […]

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Press Releases

10 October 2024

World and European Day against the Death Penalty (10 October 2024)

In celebration of the World and European Day against the Death Penalty, Italy reaffirms its firmest and unconditional opposition to capital punishment. This is a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment that negates human dignity and has no added value in terms of security and crime deterrence, while it renders every miscarriage of justice fatally irreversible. […]

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Press Releases

24 September 2024

Minister Tajani met his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio Tajani, met today with the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, on the sidelines of the High Level Week of the 79th United Nations General Assembly in New York. The situation in the Middle East and Iran’s role at the […]

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Press Releases

20 September 2024

Deputy President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani to attend the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA)

Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani is in New York from 21 to 24 September to attend the High-Level Week of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), together with the Italian President of the Council of Ministers. This year’s theme for the general […]

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Press Releases

6 August 2024

“Food for Gaza”: Italy donates 15 trucks to the World Food Programme for the distribution of food aid to Gaza thanks to funding from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Prompted by Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation signed an agreement with the World Food Programme (WFP) as part of the “Food for Gaza” humanitarian initiative. Under the agreement, the Ministry will finance the purchase of 15 IVECO […]

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Diplomatic Network

25 June 2024

UN, Global Principles for Information Integrity

The United Nations has launched for the first time the “Global Principles for Information Integrity” with the aim of promoting good practices in the field of public information and combating hate speech, misinformation and disinformation. The document, drafted – inter alia – in cooperation with UNESCO and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for […]

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Press Releases

13 June 2024

Tajani and UN Secretary-General Guterres in Brindisi for the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Global Service Centre

  Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres are in Brindisi for the ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Global Service Centre, the facility overseeing the logistics of UN peacekeeping operations. In addition to providing logistical support, the Global Service […]

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Press Releases

8 June 2024

Italy re-elected in New York as a member of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations for the three-year period 2025-2027

On 7 June 2024 Italy was re-elected in New York as a member of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations for the three-year period 2025-2027, with 183 votes out of 190 voting countries.  We were the most voted country within the Group of Western Countries in the three-year mandate election round, […]

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