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13 December 2013

VI Conferenza Italia-America Latina

VI CONFERENZA ITALIA – AMERICA LATINA E CARAIBI Si è svolta nei giorni 12 e 13 dicembre presso Il Ministero degli Affari Esteri la VI Conferenza Italia – America Latina e Caraibi. Quest’anno la Conferenza ha festeggiato il suo decimo anniversario e si è evoluta fino a divenire un momento d’incontro e riflessione propositivaad alto […]

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12 December 2013

Memorandum of Understanding for Italian and Latin American SMEs signed today at 6th Italy-Latin America and Caribbean Conference. Giro cites growing demand for Italy

The time has come to export the Italian small and medium sized enterprise model to a growing Latin America, because that sub-continent could be one of the keys to Italian economic recovery. To that end a memorandum of understanding was signed today by the Ministry of Economic Development and Italo-Latin American Institute (IILA) for the […]

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12 December 2013

EU: committed to a new “shared development grammar”, says Pistelli

Deputy Foreign Minister Pistelli participated in a meeting of the Development Council in Brussels, during which he spoke on the strategic goals of the post-2015 agenda, post-MDGs and the EU’s position in the multilateral negotiating process of the United Nations; on EU resources for aid to developing countries from 2014 to 2020 following the European […]

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9 December 2013

Bonino meets with the foreign press – Ukraine must avoid civil war. Last chance in Middle East

In Ukraine “the absolute priority is to avoid civil war and calm a situation that could become explosive”, asserted Minister Emma Bonino in a meeting with the foreign press, specifying that a representative of the European Union would be in Kiev in the coming days. “Europe will try for new negotiations”, she explained, expressing the […]

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9 December 2013

Italy-Iraq: Pistelli- Bakir meeting

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Lapo Pistelli met today in Rome with the head of foreign affairs of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan Falah Mustafa Bakir, with whom he discussed humanitarian support for Syrian refugees in the autonomous region. Following the deputy minister’s mission to Erbil in October, the Italian Cooperation dispatched emergency humanitarian […]

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6 December 2013

Mandela: his lesson of great intellectual honesty is useful to everyone, says Bonino

“What I wish to recall about him is his great intellectual honesty. He gave due credit to De Klerk for overcoming apartheid, laying the foundations, as he acknowledged his adversary, for what went on to become the approach of his entire presidency: reconciliation. This remains a very useful lesson even nowadays, and in many countries”. […]

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4 December 2013

Marò; colloquio alla Farnesina Valensise-Gupta: procedimento in India si concluda sollecitamente

Today, 4 December 2013, the Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved the agenda to find an appropriate and rapid solution to the case of Navy Riflemen Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone. The Secretary General of the Farnesina, Michele Valensise, has brought the decision to the attention of the Ambassador of India, Basant Kumar Gupta, who had […]

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4 December 2013

NATO Ministerial – Afghanistan: Karzai urged to sign agreement with USA soon

“NATO foreign ministers were unanimous in urging the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the United States as soon as possible”. This was Minister Bonino’s comment at the NATO Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. She described the agreement, which concerns the presence of American troops in Afghanistan post-2014, as […]

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2 December 2013

Longitude: “Holy Glasnost”

“Holy Glasnost”: Papa Francesco ed il suo Pontificato e’ il titolo di copertina del nuovo numero di “Longitude”, la rivista diretta da Pialuisa Bianco, in edicola dal 6 dicembre . I servizi all’interno si articolano sul dibattito nella componente cattolica, sulla radice latino-americana del Pontificato, sulle “aperture” che potrebbero portare a riforme strutturali nell’ambito della […]

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2 December 2013

Longitude: “Holy Glasnost”

The cover of the new issue of “Longitude”, the magazine edited by Pialuisa Bianco and on sale from 6 December, is dedicated to Pope Francis and his pontificate. The editorial by Minister Bonino discusses the role of diplomacy in Italy’s growth and diplomacy. Read more, in Italian.

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28 November 2013

Afghanistan: future lies in strengthening women’s role, says Bonino

The future of Afghanistan lies in “strengthening women’s role in the society”, Minister Emma Bonino underscored in a speech at the conference “Afghanistan 2014, a year of change: status and prospects for Afghan women”, sponsored by Actionaid, an international NGO working to combat poverty and social exclusion. Major advances but must remains to be done […]

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25 November 2013

Italy-Russia – Bonino: Moscow key partner for Italy, needs to be for EU

A key partner and leading actor in a frank and constructive relationship that also embraces points of divergence and differences in political priorities, cited Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino, who spoke at the Italo-Russia Media Forum today, organised at the foreign ministry in Rome on the eve of the intergovernmental summit to be held […]

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