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21 February 2013
Human Rights: We must promote the European Convention, says Terzi

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has signed up to the Council of Europe campaign to support and promote the European Convention of Human Rights. “I’ve joined the Council of Europe initiative”, said the Minister on Twitter, noting that for over 60 years the Convention’s goal has been to ensure that the fundamental freedoms are respected. A […]

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18 February 2013
SYRIA – EU renews sanctions for three months, more help for civilians

The European Union has decided to extend the sanctions against the Syrian regime for a further three months and to relax the arms embargo. The conclusions of the Foreign Affairs Council state that the restrictive measures have been amended “so as to provide greater non-lethal support and technical assistance for the protection of civilians.” Foreign […]

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18 February 2013
SYRIA: ARMS EMBARGO MUST NOT EXPIRE, SAYS TERZI

Eventual disagreement among the 27 members on the sanctions in Syria would create “a paradoxical situation, given that the European embargo is intended to impact the regime”, said Minister Giulio Terzi, expressing Italy’s position on the renewal of the sanctions package to be discussed today in the EU Foreign Affairs Council. Our country, he said, […]

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14 February 2013
Inaugurazione anno accademico – Terzi: riportare la cultura al centro del dibattito politico

Riportare il tema della cultura al centro del dibattito elettorale: è l’appello che il ministro Giulio Terzi ha fatto dall’Università di Bergamo, per l’inaugurazione dell’anno accademico. La dimensione culturale, ha rilevato Terzi, è importante “per i giovani e per un’Italia che tutti vorremmo rafforzata e trasformata nei riferimenti fondamentali della nostra coscienza individuale e collettiva”, […]

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14 February 2013
Inaugurazione anno accademico – Terzi: riportare la cultura al centro del dibattito politico

Magnifico Rettore dell’Università di Bergamo, Magnifici Rettori, Professori e studenti, Signore e Signori, rivolgo a tutti voi un cordialissimo saluto. Ben ritrovati nella nostra Bergamo! Sono particolarmente grato al Rettore Stefano Paleari per l’invito. Negli ultimi quindici mesi, e ancora in queste ultime settimane di attività di governo, la cultura – nella sua declinazione ampia […]

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11 February 2013
Foibe: persecution remains etched in the memory of all, says Terzi

“Episodes of anti-Italian persecutions in Istria, Dalmatia and Fiume must remain etched in all our memories”, so that “hostile feelings, or tendencies toward racial discrimination, toward peoples and nations who are our neighbours, such as those that led to the 1938 racial laws, will never be resussitated”. This was Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi’s […]

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11 February 2013
Religious freedom – ISPI Conference – Terzi: our battle against extremism in the interests of peace

The defence of religious freedom serves to combat violent forms of extremism that use religion as a pretext for their own dissemination, Minister Giulio Terzi underscored as he opened an ISPI-sponsored international workshop on the promotion of religious freedom today at the foreign ministry in Rome, co-chaired by Italy and Jordan. Italy’s guiding role in […]

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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. 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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