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Press Releases

2 September 2020

Vice Minister Del Re in Beirut to coordinate Italian aid

The Vice Minister in charge of development cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, is visiting Beirut today in order to enhance the commitment of Italian cooperation in the field and to ascertain the type and destination of humanitarian needs on the ground in the current emergency and post-emergency phases. In addition to the local authorities, the Vice […]

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Press Releases

12 August 2020

Lebanon: a humanitarian flight to Beirut

An Air Force flight took off this morning from Pisa to Beirut. The flight was loaded last night at the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi of about 2.4 tons of medical equipment (hygiene kits) made available by the Italian Cooperation to deal with the health emergency in Lebanon and the growing spread […]

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Press Releases

11 August 2020

Vice Minister Del Re intervenes at the videoconference on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re spoke at the video conference organised by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon. The meeting was chaired by Mark Lowcock, Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and introduced by Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Najat Rochdi, UN Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident […]

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Press Releases

10 August 2020

Telephone interview of Minister Di Maio with UN Secretary-General Guterres

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had today a telephone conversation with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, with whom he addressed the case of Mario Paciolla. The Minister expressed the strong Italian expectation that the competent Colombian authorities can continue to count on the full cooperation of […]

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Press Releases

7 August 2020

Telephone conversation between Minister Luigi Di Maio and Lebanese Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe

Today Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio had a telephone conversation with Lebanese Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe, to whom he expressed sincere condolences and the greatest solidarity for the violent explosion that hit Beirut last Tuesday. “We are ready to respond to the most urgent need and to provide the necessary assistance” the Minister affirmed, recalling […]

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Press Releases

30 July 2020

Videoconference of Vice Minister Del Re with Minister of Development Cooperation of Canada Karina Gould

Today the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, had a videoconference conversation with the Minister of Development Cooperation of Canada, Karina Gould, who offered the opportunity for an update on the initiatives launched in response to the current global health and economic crisis. In this regard, the two interlocutors agreed […]

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Press Releases

29 July 2020

South Sudan. Humanitarian flight in the framework of the “European Union Humanitarian Air Bridge

In the framework of the European Union Humanitarian Air Bridge launched by the European Commission DG ECHO to facilitate the movement of goods and humanitarian personnel in the context of the current Covid-19 pandemic, a humanitarian flight departing this morning from the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi to South Sudan (Juba) was […]

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Press Releases

20 July 2020

Vice Minister Del Re participates in the presentation of the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan of the United Nations

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re participated in the virtual briefing to present the update and revision of the “COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan/GHRP” of the United Nations. This document outlines the UN strategy for the humanitarian response to the consequences of the spread of the pandemic. The event was opened by the UN Under-Secretary-General for […]

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Press Releases

20 July 2020

Note of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Libya

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation will support IOM and UNHCR in the execution of their joint plan for Libya, drawn up at the Italian request to help the stabilization of the country and combat human trafficking. Thanks to funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IOM and UNHCR will thus be able […]

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Press Releases

16 July 2020

Ms Del Re: gender equality is necessary to recover from the crisis

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re attended the opening session of the conference “Women in Industry and Innovation”, organised by UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) within the project in support of women entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (“Promoting women empowerment for inclusive and sustainable industrial development in the MENA region”), funded by […]

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Events

15 July 2020

Minister Del Re: international cooperation is in Italy’s DNA

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re spoke at the Facebook broadcast #DueZero30, organized by the Italian Committee for the World Food Programme. Development cooperation is now part of our DNA. Italy is fully active in this field, which sees us strongly committed to the fight against poverty, for food security and health for all” – she […]

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Press Releases

14 July 2020

Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Re at the launch of the 2020 report on the state of food security and nutrition in the world

Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Re participated in a videoconference at the launch of the 2020 report on the state of food security and nutrition in the world, an annual multi-agency publication that monitors progress towards the implementation of Agenda 2030 Objective 2 (zero hunger, adequate, healthy and safe food for all).Opened by a message from […]

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