Vice Ministro Edmondo Cirielli

Press Releases

9 November 2023

More than 39 EUR million allocated to humanitarian aid in Ethiopia and other crisis contexts

The Government keeps working to send humanitarian aid to crisis contexts promptly. Today, the Vulcano vessel of the Italian Navy, equipped with a hospital onboard, has left towards the Middle East. The ship’s arrival follows humanitarian flights, which have delivered essential goods to Egypt in support of Gaza people and to Benghazi to assist the […]

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Press Releases

3 November 2023

Meeting of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Edmondo Cirielli, and the Special Envoy of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Edmondo Cirielli, and Ambassador Elchin Amirbayov, Special Envoy of the President of Azerbaijan Aliyev, met today at Farnesina to discuss the situation in Caucasus and the ongoing negotiations to address the Azerbaijan-Armenia crisis. Cirielli restated Italy’s support to ensure territorial integrity to both Countries and encouraged […]

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Press Releases

31 October 2023

Incontro del Vice Ministro degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, On. Edmondo Cirielli, con la Ministra per gli Affari Esteri, la Cooperazione e i Burkinabé all’Estero del Burkina Faso, Olivia Rouamba

Il Vice Ministro degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, On. Edmondo Cirielli, ha incontrato oggi a Roma Olivia Rouamba, Ministra per gli Affari Esteri, la Cooperazione e i Burkinabé all’Estero del Burkina Faso. Al centro del colloquio la forte preoccupazione dell’Italia per il progressivo deterioramento del quadro securitario e dell’emergenza umanitaria in Burkina Faso […]

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Press Releases

27 October 2023

Italian Cooperation flights to Libya to provide humanitarian aid to civilians

As the humanitarian crisis caused by the heavy flooding in eastern Libya continues, a humanitarian mission of the Italian Cooperation landed today in Benghazi on the orders of Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Edmondo Cirielli. The cargo departed this morning from the UN Humanitarian Response Depot in Brindisi, comprising 22 tonnes of supplies intended to […]

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Press Releases

20 October 2023

Il Vice Ministro degli Esteri On.Cirielli apre il seminario “Rafforzare gli Ecosistemi Digitali Locali in Africa”

Il Vice Ministro delegato alla cooperazione allo sviluppo On. Edmondo Cirielli ha aperto oggi alla Farnesina il seminario sulla trasformazione digitale quale veicolo dello sviluppo sostenibile nel continente africano, organizzato dal Ministero degli Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale in collaborazione con l’Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (AICS) e il Programma di Sviluppo delle […]

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Press Releases

16 October 2023

Participation of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Edmondo Cirielli, at the opening of the World Food Forum (WFF)

The Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Edmondo Cirielli, participated in the opening event of the World Food Forum (WFF) organised by the FAO in Rome. The event, now in its third edition, is being held from 16 to 20 October (to coincide with World Food Day) under the theme “Agrifood systems […]

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Press Releases

11 October 2023

Participation of Deputy Minister Edmondo Cirielli at the International Donor Conference on Humanitarian Demining in Ukraine

Deputy Minister Edmondo Cirielli participated in Zagreb at the International Donor Conference on Humanitarian Demining in Ukraine, representing the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani. The conference, which was co-organised by the Croatian and Ukrainian Governments, allowed government representatives and international organisations to explore one of the […]

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Press Releases

9 October 2023

Deputy Minister Edmondo Cirielli chairs the 5th meeting of the Joint Development Cooperation Committee 2023

The Joint Development Cooperation Committee met again today under the chairmanship of the Italian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs delegated to International Cooperation, Edmondo Cirielli. This was the fifth meeting since the beginning of the year. The Committee firstly decided, with regard to the 2024 Programming, to increase the share of Cooperation resources allocated to […]

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Press Releases

6 October 2023

Participation of Italian Deputy Minister Cirielli in the Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meeting of the Berlin Process (Tirana, 6 October)

Italy’s Deputy Minister Edmondo Cirielli, on behalf of Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, took part yesterday in the tenth Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meeting of the Berlin Process, a regional forum with the aim of fostering stability in the Western Balkans and keeping the region’s European perspective […]

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Press Releases

2 October 2023

Deputy Minister Cirielli allocates 4 million euros in funding (MAECI – Development Cooperation) to the Red Cross for urgent aid to the people of Nagorno Karabakh

With a view to coping with the rapidly increasing humanitarian needs in Nagorno Karabakh and to supporting the tens of thousands of people who have abandoned their homes to reach Armenia, in addition to the activation of Civil Protection, and in coordination and in agreement with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, […]

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Press Releases

21 September 2023

Deputy Minister Cirielli present at the Italian event on the transformation of agri-food systems to achieve the SDGs

The Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Edmondo Cirielli, opened yesterday the high-level event “Catalysing global action for sustainable and resilient agri-food systems transformation to accelerate the SDGs”, organised on the sidelines of UNGA by Italy, together with Japan (G7 Presidency), the United Arab Emirates (COP28 Presidency) and FAO. The event, attended by […]

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20 September 2023

Deputy Minister Cirielli chairs a Ministerial Meeting of the Member Countries of the “Uniting for Consensus” Group in New York

As part of the high-level week of the 78th UN General Assembly being held in New York, Italy’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Edmondo Cirielli, today chaired a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Member Countries of the “Uniting for Consensus” (UfC) Group, which includes – besides Italy – Argentina, Canada, […]

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