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5 July 2022
Secretary General, Amb. Ettore Francesco Sequi, met with Japan’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Takeo Mori

Secretary General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, met today at the Farnesina with Japan’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Takeo Mori, with whom he held consultations on major bilateral, regional, and global issues. They both expressed satisfaction for the renewed momentum in Italian-Japanese bilateral relations, as proven by the meeting in Rome between Prime Ministers Draghi and […]

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5 July 2022
Undersecretary Della Vedova speaks at Lugano Conference: “we will support the reconstruction of Ukraine”

Undersecretary Benedetto Della Vedova took the floor this morning at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Lugano. “We are here to confirm our political, military and financial support for Ukraine and its people, for its territorial integrity and sovereignty, for its independence and freedom, for its resistance and, clearly, for its reconstruction,” Mr Della Vedova pointed […]

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3 July 2022
Della Vedova at the conference for the reconstruction of Ukraine

Undersecretary of State Benedetto Della Vedova will head the Italian delegation at the Ukraine Recovery Conference, scheduled to be held in Lugano on 5 and 6 July. The conference will focus on Ukraine’s future reconstruction prospects, both economic and infrastructural as well as social and humanitarian. The conference will be attended by Ukrainian Prime Minister […]

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1 July 2022
Meeting between the Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia in Rome, Goran Aleksić.

Today, the Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, met with the Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia in Rome, Goran Aleksić. The Secretary General expressed his satisfaction over the close bilateral relations between Italy and Serbia, as confirmed by Minister Di Maio’s visit to Belgrade on 22 June 2022. During their discussion, […]

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30 June 2022
​Libya: 95 people find protection thanks to Italy

Ninety-five vulnerable people forced to flee their country left Libya this evening, headed for Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. They include children, female victims of trafficking, survivors of violence and torture and people with serious health conditions, identified by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Libya, on the basis also of information from the Community of Sant’Egidio […]

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28 June 2022
Meeting between Secretary-General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi and Secretary-General of the Dutch Foreign Ministry, Paul Huijts

Farnesina Secretary-General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi had a bilateral meeting with the Secretary-General of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paul Huijts The meeting gave them an opportunity to have a detailed exchange of views on the most significant issues on the European and international bilateral agenda, finding agreement in many dossiers of mutual interest. […]

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26 June 2022
NOTE FROM THE FARNESINA – Minister Di Maio on mission to Saudi Arabia (26-27 JUNE 2022)

Today and tomorrow, 26 and 27 June 2022, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, will be on an official diplomatic mission to Arabia Saudita. The visit, which falls on the 90th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations, aims to further consolidate the strategic dialogue between Rome and Riyadh that […]

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24 June 2022
Joint statement of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America on Libya

France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America welcome the progress made in the talks between the Joint Committee of the House of Representatives and High State Council in Cairo facilitated by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). We welcome the degree of consensus reached so far towards agreement […]

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24 June 2022
Press Release – CO-OPERA 2022

CO-OPERA, the 2nd National Development Cooperation Conference held on 23 and 24 June at Rome’s Auditorium della Conciliazione closed today. The Conference, which is convened every three years by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to foster the participation of citizens in defining development cooperation policies, was co-organized by the Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the […]

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24 June 2022
Farnesina Secretary General, Amb. Sequi, holds consultations with Iceland’s Permanent Secretary of State, Amb. Martin Eyjólfsson

Today, the Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, received the Permanent Secretary of State of Iceland, Ambassador Martin Eyjólfsson, to hold bilateral consultations. Ambassador Sequi expressed satisfaction for the renewed momentum in the bilateral relations between Rome and Reikiavik, as confirmed by the recent meeting between Minister Di Maio and his counterpart […]

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