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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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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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In detail
12 November 2021
Minister Luigi Di Maio participates in the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of UNESCO

Luigi Di Maio, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, is participating in the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of UNESCO. Education, science and culture are at the heart of the multilateral action taken by Italy, which has traditionally been committed to the protection of cultural and natural heritage, also during Italy’s Presidency of […]

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Press Releases
22 July 2021
Venice has been confirmed as an emblematic site on the UNESCO World Heritage List

Venice will not be classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Danger. At its 44th session, conducted in virtual mode this afternoon from Fuzhou (China), the UNESCO World Heritage Committee did not unanimously accept the proposal, tabled by the technical assessment body ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites),  to include the site “Venice […]

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Events
20 January 2021
Unesco, insediati Assemblea e Consiglio direttivo CNIU

Il Ministero degli Esteri è lieto di annunciare l’insediamento, nella loro nuova formazione, dell’Assemblea e del Consiglio Direttivo della Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l’UNESCO (CNIU). L’Assemblea e il Consiglio Direttivo, presieduti dal Dott. Franco Bernabè, accolgono rappresentanti designati dal Senato e dalla Camera dei Deputati, dalla Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri e da vari Ministeri, nonché […]

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Press Releases
20 January 2021
UNESCO: Sereni, cultural heritage basis for future growth and innovation

‘In recent months UNESCO’s action to deal with the health emergency has been hallmarked by timeliness and effectiveness, especially in the field of Education’, stated Marina Sereni, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the opening of the Italian National Commission meeting for UNESCO. Vice Minister Sereni added: ‘Italy is the leading financial contributor to this […]

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Press Releases
26 October 2020
Vice Minister Sereni to UNESCO. Post-Covid future must be focused on the fight against inequalities and sustainable development

“Today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Strategic Consultations between Italy and UNESCO were launched, with the Vice Minister Marina Sereni who chaired the meeting with all the Vice Directors General of the International Organization based in Paris via videoconference. Italy attaches great importance to the action carried out by UNESCO for the preservation […]

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