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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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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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Press Releases
5 October 2020
Nota Farnesina – Participation of Minister Di Maio in the Ministerial Meeting on Libya

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, participated today by videoconference in the high-level ministerial meeting on Libya, co-organised by the UN General Secretariat and Germany in the margins of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly. The meeting, which was opened by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres followed […]

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Press Releases
1 October 2020
Minister Di Maio receives Min President Laschet

Minister Luigi Di Maio received today at the Foreign Ministry Armin Laschet, Minister President of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia and candidate for CDU presidency. The Minister first of all thanked President Laschet for the generosity and help received from Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia during the most acute phase of the health emergency: the Land […]

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Press Releases
1 October 2020
VM Del Re at the UN: Italy Committed to peace in the Central African Republic

In the context of the 75th General Assembly of the United Nations, Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re attended the ministerial event on the Central African Republic (CAR) in VTC. The meeting started with the speeches by the UN Secretary General, Guterres, the President of the Central African Republic, Touadéra, the President of the African Union […]

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Press Releases
28 September 2020
Virtual meeting of the Ministers of the Countries belonging to the “Uniting for Consensus” (UfC) Group

PRESS RELEASE  Ministers of the Countries belonging to the “Uniting for Consensus” (UfC) Group held a virtual meeting today to assess the state of the UN Security Council reform process. While profoundly impacted by the tragic Covid-19 pandemic that allowed only two meetings to take place, the last Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) on the reform of the Security Council confirmed […]

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Events
26 September 2020
Sereni at the UN, the new normality must be inclusive, green, and sustainable

Vice Minister Marina Sereni participated in a videoconference at the ministerial meeting of the Alliance for Multilateralism, held on the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The speeches focused on the need to “rebuild the world and multilateral institutions in the best possible way” after the COVID-19 crisis, especially considering climate, health, digital […]

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Press Releases
26 September 2020
Sereni at the UN, the new normality must be inclusive, green, and sustainable

Vice Minister Marina Sereni participated in a videoconference at the ministerial meeting of the Alliance for Multilateralism, held on the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The speeches focused on the need to “rebuild the world and multilateral institutions in the best possible way” after the COVID-19 crisis, especially considering climate, health, digital […]

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