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Press Releases
14 December 2020
Minister Luigi Di Maio receives the Netherlands’ Foreign Minister, Stef Blok, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Today the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, has met the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, Stef Blok, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a side meeting within the strategic Italian/Dutch Van Wittel – Vanvitelli Round Table.   Minister Di Maio has first expressed the hope that bilateral cooperation will […]

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Press Releases
7 December 2020
Del Re with Portugal Secretary of State on the Cabo Delgado crisis

The Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, met via videoconference Teresa Ribeiro, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Portugal. They focused on the situation in the province of Cabo Delgado in Mozambique. Over the last three years, Cabo Delgado (in the north of the country) has been […]

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7 December 2020
Vice Minister Del Re in conversation with the United Kingdom’s European Neighbourhood Minister

Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, met by videoconference with Wendy Morton, Minister for the European Neighbourhood, and the Americas of the United Kingdom. The conversation focused on collaboration opportunities between the two countries on issues of common interest in the various multilateral fora. Del Re and Morton discussed the […]

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7 December 2020
Vice Minister Del Re addresses the House of Lords: European solutions to child refugees

Emanuela Del Re, the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, was a keynote speaker at a virtual conference of the House of Lords in the British Parliament, dealing with voluntary relocation of child and other vulnerable refugees. The Vice Minister provided an overview of the complementary processes for safe, legal migration that Italy […]

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Press Releases
1 December 2020
Minister Di Maio participates in the 23rd EU-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in virtual format

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, participated in the 23rd EU-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting, in virtual format, which sanctioned the upgrading of relations between the European Union and ASEAN to a Strategic Partnership. In his speech Minister Di Maio stressed how the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of multilateralism. Since […]

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30 November 2020
Minister Luigi Di Maio on a mission to Zagreb

Minister Luigi Di Maio is today on a mission to Zagreb. On the agenda: – Meeting with Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman – Plenary session of the Committee of Ministers and Signature of the Joint Declaration – Press statements   Watch the press conference  

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Press Releases
27 November 2020
Minister Di Maio participates in the EU-Southern Neighbourhood Meeting

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, participated today in the video conference at ministerial level on the future of relations between the EU and the Southern Neighbourhood Countries, chaired by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell. The Ministerial Meeting was organised […]

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Press Releases
24 November 2020
Del Re at the EU FAC on Development: urgent action needed in Tigray

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, took part in the video conference of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council in its ‘development’ format. During the meeting there was a discussion on debt relief and investments to achieve the SDGs. The Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, the Commissioner for International Partnerships, […]

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13 November 2020
Minister Di Maio talks on the phone with Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania

On 13 November 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, held a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama. The conversation focused, among other things, on the fight against Covid-19 and bilateral cooperation, Albania’s European perspective, cooperation in the framework of Albania’s OSCE Chairmanship.  

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12 November 2020
Kosovo, Italy welcomes latest developments

We welcome the endorsement made by the Implementation and Monitoring Council (IMC) on Special Protective Zones in Kosovo, of the Italy-facilitated solution to the long-standing issue of the road network near the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Deçan/Dečane. The IMC decision was made possible thanks to the facilitation between the parties carried out by the Italian […]

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11 November 2020
Minister Luigi Di Maio attends Question Time at the Chamber of Deputies

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, answers questions on the initiatives aimed at averting civil war in Ethiopia and protecting the Italian companies operating in that country (Quartapelle Procopio – PD); on the initiatives aimed at containing Turkish expansionism, also in relation to the respect of the Montego Bay Treaty […]

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