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Interviews

2 April 2015

Gentiloni: “We won’t accept an agreement at any cost”

“We won’t accept an agreement at any cost”, says Gentiloni. “Signing would change Tehran’s role in the Middle East” From our correspondent in Amman “We’re in favour of a good agreement in Lausanne but that doesn’t mean supporting the Iranian positions”. Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni speaks about the negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear capability after his […]

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In detail

1 April 2015

Jordan: Nasser Judeh tells Gentiloni Da’esh is taking Islam hostage. Mission to Amman to meet Judeh and King Abdullah. Visit to Azraq refugee camp on border with Syria

Da’esh “is trying to take Islam hostage and distort its image. That is why the battle against terrorism and extremism is a battle within Islam: it’s our battle”. Those were the words of the Jordanian foreign minister, Nasser Judeh, in a press statement after his meeting with his Italian colleague Paolo Gentiloni. Minister Gentiloni was […]

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Press Releases

30 March 2015

UN: Farnesina welcomes resolutions on situation in Libya

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, has welcomed the unanimous adoption by the United Nations Security Council of two important resolutions on the situation in Libya. The resolutions have extended the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) led by the Secretary General’s Special Representative for Libya, Bernardino […]

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Press Releases

26 March 2015

Yemen: Italy informed by Saudi Arabia of raid intention. Gentiloni cites need to not jeopardise UN negotiation

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation received a telephone call yesterday afternoon from Saudi Minister for Foreign Affairs Prince Saud al-Faisal regarding the military initiative that the Riyadh government would be undertaking in the following hours in response to a request for assistance from legitimate Yemeni President Hadi. Minister Gentiloni expressed understanding for concerns […]

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Press Releases

23 March 2015

High Level Italy-Algeria Contact Group; Pistelli, reaffirms joint support for a unified Libya and political solution

 “We reaffirmed our joint support for a unified Libya and for the achievement of a political solution. We intend to confront the terrorist threat together by implementing a concrete programme over the coming months”. This was the statement by Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Lapo Pistelli in the margins of today’s meeting […]

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Press Releases

22 March 2015

JOINT STATEMENT ON LIBYA

 The Governments of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States welcome the resumption of the Libyan political dialogue in Skhirat, Morocco. We strongly support the efforts of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, Bernardino Leon, the UNSMIL team and the Libyan participants and congratulate them  all  on the progress […]

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Press Releases

21 March 2015

Giornata internazionale per l’eliminazione delle discriminazioni razziali

Giornata internazionale per l’eliminazione delle discriminazioni razziali: Italia da sempre in prima linea   La Giornata internazionale per l’eliminazione delle discriminazioni razziali assume  particolare rilevanza quest’anno in cui ricorre anche il cinquantesimo anniversario dell’adozione della Convenzione internazionale sull’eliminazione di ogni forma di discriminazione razziale (1965-2015), ratificata dall’Italia nel 1976 e fondamento della lotta internazionale alle […]

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Press Releases

21 March 2015

Bodies of Italian victims of terrorist attack in Tunis flown to Rome

The Head of the Farnesina Crisis Unit left the Tunis airport with the bodies of the victims of the terrorist attack in Tunis and their families headed for Rome, where the authorities will perform the procedures required by law. Once those procedures are have been completed, they will be flown back to Turin.

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Accreditation Notices

20 March 2015

NOTA DI SERVIZIO PER I REDATTORI CAPO – Rientro delle salme dei connazionali vittime dell’attentato terroristico a Tunisi

I cine-foto-operatori interessati a riprendere il rientro, previsto per domani 21 marzo,  all’aeroporto di Ciampino Militare delle salme dei connazionali vittime dell’attentato terroristico a Tunisi, sono pregati di chiedere uno specifico accreditamento. Le richieste di accreditamento dovranno essere inviate al Servizio per la Stampa e la Comunicazione Istituzionale del Ministero degli Affari Esteri via mail all’indirizzo accreditamentostampa@esteri.it oppure via […]

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Press Releases

20 March 2015

Establishment of ISIL Counter-Financing Work Group (GCFI)

On 19 and 20 March, Italy, The United States and Saudi Arabia co-chaired the first meeting of the ISIL Counter-Financing Work Group (ICFG) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The representatives of 26 countries and international organisations met to analyse the funds flowing toward ISIL, share intelligence sources and coordinate efforts to […]

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Interviews

20 March 2015

Gentiloni: «Rapid pacification of Libya to combat terrorism» (Il Messaggero)

As Foreign Minister, would you say that we now have the first Italian victims of ISIS? Are Tunisia’s Ansar al Sharia jihadists aligned with the Caliphate? «We have the innocent victims of criminal terrorists. And then, it’s very difficult to make a clear distinction between Daesh [ISIS, editor’s note] and more traditional jihad-based terrorism. Certainly, […]

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Press Releases

19 March 2015

First meeting today at the Farnesina of Anti-ISIL Coalition Work Group on halting financing to Daesh

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni opened the first meeting of the Anti-ISIL Coalition Work Group on halting financing of Daesh this morning at the Farnesina. The group was set up in implementation of the strategy agreed on by the countries most active in the Coalition, which have launched a strengthened cooperation […]

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