Foreign Ministry Note – Italy rejoins the UNESCO World Heritage Committee
From today Italy is once again a member of the World Heritage Committee, the UNESCO body that is responsible, under the UNESCO Convention of 1972, for ensuring the effective and well-structured protection of World Heritage and for taking final decisions about inscriptions on the World Heritage List. Italy had been absent from the Committee for […]
Read moreLibya: new flight for Italy brings hope to asylum seekers
Ninety-three asylum seekers from Libya landed today at Fiumicino Airport. After their arrival, they will be able to apply for refugee status, which will give them the right to protection. The asylum seekers traveled on a charter fIight of the UNHCR, the United Nations Agency for Refugees. It is the first arrival implementing a protocol […]
Read morePress release on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
On the occasion of the 2021 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and its foreign network join the awareness-raising campaign “Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!” launched by UN Women. This year, the campaign aims at preventing all forms of violence, […]
Read moreFOREIGN MINISTRY NOTE – 4th meeting of the Italy-Russian Federation Working Group on combating global challenges
Today in Moscow, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, together with Gen. Oleg Syromolotov, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, jointly chaired the 4th meeting of the Italy-Russian Federation Working Group on combating global challenges. Also taking part were representatives of various Italian administrations including the Ministries […]
Read moreNotice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Sereni presides over the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation
The Vice Minister Marina Sereni presided over the sixth annual meeting of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation, with the participation of the General Director for Development Cooperation, Giorgio Marrapodi, and the Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Luca Maestripieri. Representatives of the Ministry for the Economy and Finance and the Savings and […]
Read moreSereni opens the Assembly of the Parties of IDLO
“The rule of law is essential now more than ever before, because the effectiveness of the measures passed by the governments in order to ‘build back better’ after the pandemic derive from the ability of the institutions to be transparent, effective and responsible.” These words were spoken by Vice Minister Marina Sereni in her address […]
Read moreThe EU-Western Balkan Youth Forum open today in Rome
The Conference on the future of Europe gains additional value from a new event based on an Italian initiative. The EU-Western Balkan Youth Forum, promoted by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, opens today in Rome. It is the first initiative devoted to discussion of the future of Europe and inclusion of […]
Read moreMission of Minister Di Maio in the United Arab Emirates for Expo Dubai 2020
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, will travel today to the United Arab Emirates for a two-day mission devoted to the Italian National Day at EXPO Dubai 2020. The Minister will visit the Italian Pavilion and inaugurate the National Day (November 24), during which he will illustrate the philosophy […]
Read moreUndersecretaries Manlio Di Stefano and Benedetto Della Vedova preside over the “Cultural Industry” Sectorial Table
Undersecretaries Manlio Di Stefano and Benedetto Della Vedova presided this morning at the Table devoted to the cultural industry, attended virtually by representatives of the cultural and creative production system. The meeting was one of a series of Sectorial Tables organized by the associations of producers and other categories, for the purpose of gathering ideas […]
Read moreG7 Foreign Ministers’ statement on Belarus
We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union, condemn the Belarus regime’s orchestration of irregular migration across its borders. These callous acts are putting people’s lives at risk. We are united in our solidarity with […]
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