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8 February 2013

Trafficking – OSCE seminar – Slavery in the 21st century – development and rights essential, says Terzi

“Trafficking in human beings is one of the most abnormal crimes of today’s world: it is the slavery of the 21st century”. The point was made by Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi as he opened the seminar on “Co-operation to Prevent Trafficking in Human Beings in the Mediterranean Region”, organised by the Organization for Security and […]

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5 February 2013

Female genital mutilation – Abolish this cruel practice as soon as possible, urges Terzi

A new impetus for the campaign against female genital mutilation (FGM), the aim being a worldwide ban in the shortest time possible. This is Italy’s goal in promoting a two-day conference at the Farnesina on policies to combat a practice of which 140 million girls worldwide are victims. A practice that affects not just Africa […]

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5 February 2013

We must promote a USA-EU free trade area, says Terzi

The European Union and the United States must create a trans-Atlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) if we are to emerge more quickly from the tunnel of the crisis. The point was made by Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, opening a workshop on trans-Atlantic relations organised by the Farnesina in collaboration with the Institute for International Affairs […]

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Press Releases

4 February 2013

Montenegro: Terzi offers Luksic support for european integration

Minister Terzi met today with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Montenegro Igor Lukšić in the margins of the “New approaches to the Security Council reform” meeting. Their discussion centred on a common intention to pursue and strengthen bilateral relations, and Italy’s support for Montenegro’s Euro-Atlantic integration. Minister Terzi confirmed Italy’s strong encouragement of […]

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Speeches

2 February 2013

Intervento del Ministro Terzi alla Conferenza sulla Sicurezza di Monaco: Sicurezza e Stabilità nel Sudest Europeo e nel Caucaso.

Fa fede solo il discorso effettivamente pronunciato. Il video dell’intervento è accessibile al link della Conferenza https://www.securityconference.de/1/media-library/   The stability achieved in South-eastern Europe after the conflicts of the 1990s is one of the most outstanding results of the International Community in the past two decades. This result was reached not only thanks to the […]

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2 February 2013

Intervento del Ministro Terzi alla Conferenza sulla Sicurezza di Monaco: Sicurezza e Stabilità nel Sudest Europeo e nel Caucaso.

Fa fede solo il discorso effettivamente pronunciato. The stability achieved in South-eastern Europe after the conflicts of the 1990s is one of the most outstanding results of the International Community in the past two decades. This result was reached not only thanks to the NATO intervention in 1999 and the post-conflict work of the EU, […]

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Speeches

1 February 2013

Intervento del Ministro Terzi alla Seconda edizione del Forum Microfinanza e Politiche dell’Unione Europea

(fa fede solo il discorso effettivamente pronunciato) Vice Presidente della Commissione Europea, On. Antonio Tajani, Presidente dell’Ente Nazionale per il Microcredito (ENM), On. Mario Baccini, Vice Presidente dell’ENM, Amb. Sergio Vento, ringrazio gli organizzatori di questo Forum europeo sulla microfinanza, giunto alla sua seconda edizione. La mia presenza e il patrocinio del Ministero degli Esteri […]

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1 February 2013

Terzi: micro finance to prevent social fragility

Microfinance is one of the instruments for “addressing inertia and social fragility, which is essential in safeguarding the quality of democracies” in order to prevent “material distress from encouraging populist deviation and citizen regression”. Minister Giulio Terzi thus explained the anti-crisis role of microcredit and microfinance, as he spoke at the second edition of the […]

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31 January 2013

EU Foreign Affairs Council, Terzi calls for rapid launch of border control mission in Libya

Italy called for the deployment “as rapidly as possible” of a European border control mission in Libya, explained Minister Giulio Terzi at the conclusion of an EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels. “We discussed the EU’s possible collaboration on border control in Libya and the country’s security conditions; my call for the rapid launch […]

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31 January 2013

EU Foreign Affairs Council Terzi in Brussels: focus on Syria, Mali, Egypt and Somalia

The crises in Syria and Mali, along with the situations in Somalia and Egypt, will be the main topics of discussion today at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, where Minister Terzi is representing Italy. Syria Italy will stress the urgency to accelerate a political solution hinging on Assad’s exit from the scenario, and […]

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30 January 2013

SIRIA – Da donatori 1,5 mld per i civili. Terzi: soluzione crisi resta priorità (in translation)

La comunità internazionale torna a mobilitarsi a sostegno dei civili siriani. La conferenza dei donatori, in Kuwait, con la partecipazione di 59 Paesi e 13 agenzie dell’Onu, ha raccolto promesse di aiuti per oltre 1,5 miliardi di dollari. Lo ha annunciato il segretario generale dell’Onu Ban Ki-moon, aggiungendo che “abbiamo superato l’obiettivo”. Adesso si punta […]

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30 January 2013

Syria – New meeting in Brussels. Crisis solution remains priority

The crisis in Syria will be on the agenda of the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting on Thursday 31 January in Brussels, discussions that will include a possible review of the arms embargo, although a decision may not be forthcoming until mid-February. The request to end the arms embargo came from the Syrian National Opposition […]

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