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Press Releases
24 May 2023
With 32 million people struggling from drought and conflict, donors at UN-backed event announce US$2.4 billion to support people in the Horn of Africa

(24 May 2023, New York) With the Horn of Africa facing the combined impacts of a historic drought, conflict and economic shocks, donors at a United Nations-backed event today announced US$2.4 billion to provide life-saving and life-sustaining assistance for nearly 32 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Famine has been averted, thanks in part […]

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Press Releases
4 May 2023
Visit by the Deputy Minister, Hon. Edmondo Cirielli, to the UN base in Brindisi

Deputy Minister Cirielli today visited the UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) and the UN Global Service Centre at Brindisi Airport. The first base of this kind, established by the United Nations and financed by Italy since 2000, UNHRD provides international logistical services and emergency aid to respond to humanitarian crises around the world, thanks to […]

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Press Releases
7 April 2023
Afghanistan: Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on Taliban banning Afghan women from working for the UN

With profound shock, the EU learned on 4 April that the Taliban had decided to ban Afghan women from working for the UN and its agencies, funds and programmes. This decision follows several previous bans and edicts that have targeted Afghan women and girls, reinforcing and tightening the consistent denial by the Taliban leadership of […]

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Press Releases
27 March 2023
Joint Press release of the “Uniting for Consensus” Group

Senior officials from the countries of the “Uniting for Consensus” Group (UfC) met in Rome on 27 March to the UNSC reform. The presence of UfC senior officials allowed for in-depth discussion on better promoting the core tenets of its proposal. A brainstorming exercise with experts from SIOI, IAI and other think tanks and universities […]

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Press Releases
26 March 2023
Meeting of the “Uniting for Consensus” Group for Security Council reform (Rome, 26 March 2023)

A meeting of the “Uniting for Consensus” Group (UfC Group) at the level of senior officials will be held tomorrow at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to discuss strategies with which to promote a reform of the United Nations Security Council that would make it more representative, democratic, accountable, effective and transparent. […]

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Press Releases
7 March 2023
Speech by Undersecretary Maria Tripodi at the 5th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (Doha, 5-9 March 2023)

Today, Italian Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Maria Tripodi spoke on behalf of Italy at the 5th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), to be held in Doha from 5 to 9 March. The UN Conference is being attended by government delegations from over 150 countries, with the ambitious goal of […]

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Press Releases
20 February 2023
Meeting of Undersecretary Silli with a delegation from the United States Congress, led by the Co-Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, Rep. Steve Cohen

On the instructions of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, Undersecretary Giorgio Silli received a US Congressional delegation at the Farnesina today, which was led by the Co-Chairman of the Helsinki Commission, Steve Cohen. One year after the outbreak of the conflict, the Ukrainian dossier was […]

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Press Releases
14 February 2023
UN Security Council Reform – Uniting for Consensus

PRESS RELEASE The African Continent deserves wider representation in the UN Security Council says Uniting for Consensus Group. The Permanent Representatives to the African Union of the countries of the “Uniting for Consensus” Group (UfC) represented in Addis Ababa met to discuss this. Uniting for Consensus is a group of countries from different regions of […]

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Press Releases
10 February 2023
Meeting of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, with the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily

The Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, met today with the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, at the Farnesina. The Italian Deputy Prime Minister stressed the importance that Italy attaches to Libya’s sovereignty, stability and prosperity, which is one of the Italian government’s […]

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Press Releases
3 February 2023
Italy – UN Joint Press Release | Stage set in Italy to take stock on progress towards the transformation of food systems across world at critical half-way point of the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030

ROME, 3 February— On behalf of The Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, Antonio Tajani, announced today the UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment, will take place in Rome, Italy from 24 – 26 July 2023, at […]

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