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Press Releases

20 October 2020

Del Re: Italy’s increasing commitment to the stabilization of the Sahel

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re participated, via videoconference, in the Ministerial Round Table on the Central Sahel region (Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso), jointly organised by the European Commission, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Germany and Denmark to deepen the humanitarian situation in the region. In her speech, Vice Minister […]

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Press Releases

15 October 2020

Sereni: Italy committed to protecting children in war

An extremely positive talk took place between Vice Foreign Minister Marina Sereni and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict Virginia Gamba. The safeguarding and protection of children in the war zones of the planet is a vast humanitarian problem, made more serious today by the health emergency. Italy has made this […]

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Press Releases

14 October 2020

Vice Minister Del Re in Niger: with humanitarian aid she announces an action plan for migrations

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re arrived yesterday evening in Niger with the humanitarian flight of the Italian Cooperation operated in partnership with the Command of Joint Operations (COI)-Ministry of Defence. The flight transported first aid material for the victims of the severe floods that have hit the Niger in recent weeks. The flight was welcomed […]

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Diplomatic Network

14 October 2020

Yangon: secondo ciclo di webinar sulla lotta al COVID-19

Continua l’impegno dell’Italia a fianco del Myanmar nella lotta al COVID-19 e per accrescere le capacità sanitarie locali. L’Ambasciata d’Italia a Yangon ha infatti lanciato un nuovo ciclo di webinar, in coordinamento con il Ministero della Salute birmano e la Rappresentanza OMS nel Paese asiatico. Il ciclo di seminari è organizzato dall’Ambasciata in collaborazione con […]

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Press Releases

13 October 2020

Sereni to the tenth anniversary of the birth of the International Commission against the Death Penalty

“The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) plays a crucial role in the mobilization of governments and people for the abolition of the death penalty, a priority theme in Italy’s international action for the affirmation of human rights”. This what stated by the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Marina Sereni, speaking in a video […]

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Press Releases

12 October 2020

VM Sereni celebrates twenty years of the Palermo Convention; one of Falcone’s dreams

The Vice Foreign Minister Marina Sereni opened, together with UNODOC Executive Director Ghada Waly, the videoconference work on the event for the 20th anniversary of the Palermo Convention – signed in December 2000 – promoted by Italy together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). “Almost 20 years after the signing of […]

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Press Releases

12 October 2020

International day against the death penalty

On the World and European Day against the Death Penalty celebrated today, Italy reiterates its strongest condemnation of the death penalty in all circumstances. Italy believes that the Death Penalty has no deterrent value concerning crime while making any judicial error dramatically irreversible. In occasion of the ministerial week of the 75th session of the […]

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Press Releases

9 October 2020

Del Re with UN Vice SG, Amina Mohammed: great joy for the Nobel Prize at WFP

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re had a conversation in VTC with the Vice Secretary-General of the United Nations. Amina Mohammed. Both expressed great joy and satisfaction for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP), based in Rome. “In this award, there is also a little bit of Italy,” […]

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Press Releases

9 October 2020

Nobel Peace: VM Sereni, multiply efforts against hunger and pandemic

“The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the World Food Programme is not only the well-deserved recognition of a UN agency that carries out unique and fundamentally important work in every emergency. It is a solicitation for all governments to understand how essential it is, even more so today considering the consequences of Covid19 pandemic, the […]

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Events

9 October 2020

Nobel al WFP, le congratulazioni della Farnesina

Il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale si congratula con il World Food Program delle Nazioni Unite, insignito del Premio Nobel per la Pace 2020: “Fieri di ospitarvi a Roma e di collaborare per sicurezza alimentare e lotta alla fame nel mondo, soprattutto nelle aree bisognose di assistenza umanitaria, priorità della Cooperazione italiana”. […]

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Press Releases

7 October 2020

Del Re receives the new Director of UNICRI with offices in Turin

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re received Antonia Marie De Meo at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 1st July Ms De Meo is the Director of the United Nations Interregional Institute for Research on Crime and Justice (UNICRI), with offices in Turin. The meeting was the occasion for a presentation of the strategic vision and […]

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Press Releases

6 October 2020

VM Del Re. Italy supports access to vaccine for less developed countries

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re had an interview in VTC with the UN Sub-Secretary General and High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, Fekitamoeloa Utoikamanu. “Italy is a traditional friend and long-standing supporter of UN action in defence of vulnerable countries” –  the Vice Minister recalled to her […]

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