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Press Releases
11 July 2025
Joint Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Culture, and the Municipality of Venice on the site “Venice and its lagoon”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Culture, and the Municipality of Venice warmly welcome the unanimous decision adopted by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee concerning the site “Venice and its lagoon”. The unanimous vote, passed without debate, represents a recognition of the intense and tangible efforts undertaken in recent years […]

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Press Releases
25 January 2024
Tripodi: UNESCO is a key pillar of Italian cultural diplomacy

Italy’s Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Maria Tripodi today opened the Assembly of the National Commission for UNESCO at the Farnesina. Reaffirming Italy’s unwavering adherence to the precious values embraced by UNESCO, Tripodi expressed her full appreciation for the work performed by the Italian National Commission under the leadership of President Franco Bernabè. […]

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Press Releases
18 January 2024
Italian Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Maria Tripodi opens the 3rd International Symposium on Cultural Heritage: Preserving and Safeguarding Cultural Heritage as an Imperative for the International Community

Today, Italian Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Maria Tripodi took part in the opening of the 3rd International Symposium on Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage, hosted at the Forlì campus of the University of Bologna and organised by the Heritage International Institute (HII) and the University of Pisa, with a video message. As […]

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29 November 2023
Minister Antonio Tajani closes the UNESCO Conference “Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century”

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio Tajani, closes the UNESCO Conference “Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century” together with the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, and the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay. Co-organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Culture and UNESCO, […]

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Press Releases
27 November 2023
UNESCO-ITALY Conference “Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century” kicks off in Naples

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Edmondo Cirielli opened today, upon instructions of Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, and together with Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO Ernesto Ottone and Mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi, the UNESCO Conference “Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century. Co-organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International […]

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Press Releases
16 November 2023
Italy re-elected to UNESCO’s Executive Board with 155 votes: the highest number of endorsements for the Western Group

Italy was re-elected yesterday to its seventh consecutive four-year mandate as a member of UNESCO’s Executive Board. The election took place during the 42nd meeting of UNESCO’s General Conference in Paris. The election, which saw Italy receive the highest number of votes in the Western Group, reaffirms the leading role played by the country in […]

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Press Releases
9 November 2023
Mission of Undersecretary Tripodi to Paris for the UNESCO General Assembly and BIE meetings

Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Maria Tripodi is on a mission to Paris, where she attended the UNESCO General Assembly and met with delegates from the Bureau International des Expositions from Japan, Chile, Cook Islands, Liberia, Suriname, and Slovenia to promote the ExpoRoma2030 candidacy. The Undersecretary, accompanied by the Italian Permanent Representative to […]

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Press Releases
6 September 2022
Italy takes part in the first underwater multilateral archaeological mission under the auspices of UNESCO on the Skerki Bank and in the Strait of Sicily

Together with Experts from the Ministry of Culture, Italy took part in the first underwater multilateral archaeological mission under the auspices of UNESCO on the Skerki Bank and in the Strait of Sicily. The mission was launched on 21 August and is scheduled to end on 4 September. It is the first multilateral mission under […]

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Press Releases
16 December 2021
Notice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Truffle hunting and extraction on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List

This morning Italy obtained a new prestigious recognition by UNESCO, thanks to the inscription of the “Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy: traditional knowledge and practices” in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The proclamation took place during the sixteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which […]

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Press Releases
25 November 2021
Foreign Ministry Note – Italy rejoins the UNESCO World Heritage Committee

From today Italy is once again a member of the World Heritage Committee, the UNESCO body that is responsible, under the UNESCO Convention of 1972, for ensuring the effective and well-structured protection of World Heritage and for taking final decisions about inscriptions on the World Heritage List. Italy had been absent from the Committee for […]

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