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Press Releases
3 February 2023
Meeting between Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani and UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed; UN Food Systems Summit to be held in Rome in July

ROME – This morning at the Farnesina, Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, met with UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed. The Deputy Prime Minister and the Deputy Secretary-General agreed to hold in Rome (on 24-26 July 2023) the international summit following up on the Food Systems Summit, […]

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Press Releases
15 December 2022
​​The Secretary General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, meets the Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ambassador Earle Courtney Rattray (15 December 2022)

The Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, met Ambassador Earle Courtney Rattray, Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary General of the United Nations, at the Farnesina today. Their discussion focused on Italy’s full support for the UN and the work of Secretary General Antonio Guterres to […]

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Press Releases
10 December 2022
International Human Rights Day

Today, we celebrate the International Human Rights Day. On this same date, seventy-four years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly with the aim, after the horrors of the Second World War, of contributing to the construction of a new international order based on the respect for […]

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Press Releases
28 November 2022
Undersecretary Tripodi’s participation in the Ninth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention at UN Geneva

On behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Maria Tripodi, attended the Ninth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) at the United Nations Building in Geneva. Chaired by Ambassador Leonardo Bencini, Italy’s Permanent Representative to the Disarmament […]

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Press Releases
25 November 2022
25 November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Farnesina and its foreign network fully join the awareness-raising campaign “UNITE! Activism to End Violence against Women & Girls. Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!”, promoted by UN Women, which in 2022 focuses on the fundamental contribution given by movements, organisations and […]

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Press Releases
18 November 2022
​Undersecretary Tripodi in Dublin for conference on protecting civilians from Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas

The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Development, Maria Tripodi, has attended a conference in Dublin which adopted a political declaration strengthening the protection of civilians from the humanitarian consequences arising from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas (EWIPA). Over 60 States attended the event, as well as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and […]

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Events
11 November 2022
MED Trident Workshop on cooperation in nuclear forensics

A MED Trident Drill took place from 9 to 11 November 2022 at the National Fire Prevention Institute (Istituto Superiore Antincendi – ISA) in Rome. The drill consisted of a multilateral workshop promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and dedicated to capacity building in the detection of radiological-nuclear material and judicial […]

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Press Releases
31 October 2022
Russia: Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on Russia’s decision to suspend its participation in the UN Black Sea Grain Initiative

Russia’s unjustified decision to suspend its participation in the UN Black Sea Grain Initiative obstructs the export of much needed grain to address the global food crisis. Russia is solely responsible for the global food security crisis it has caused by its unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine and its blockade of Ukrainian […]

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Press Releases
10 October 2022
European and World Day against the Death Penalty

To mark European and World Day against the Death Penalty, Italy reaffirms its unconditional opposition to the death penalty, a cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment that denies human dignity and has no added value in terms of discouraging crime and of assuring security while it makes any judicial error fatally irreversible. Every year, the European […]

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Press Releases
3 October 2022
Italy re-elected to the Council of the International Telecommunication Union

Today, 3 October, Italy has been re-elected to the Council of the International Telecommunication Union – ITU, at the Plenipotentiary Conference under way in Bucharest. The re-election, with very broad consensus, confirms Italy’s eminent role at the ITU, the Geneva-based United Nations Agency specialized in Information and Communication Technologies, and represents yet another recognition of […]

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Press Releases
24 September 2022
Joint Statement on the Situation in Libya

Senior officials representing France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States met on September 22 on the margins of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York to review the ongoing crisis in Libya. They expressed their support for Special Representative of the Secretary-General Abdoulaye Bathily as he takes up his mandate […]

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