Vice Minister Del Re in Niger: with humanitarian aid she announces an action plan for migrations
Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re arrived yesterday evening in Niger with the humanitarian flight of the Italian Cooperation operated in partnership with the Command of Joint Operations (COI)-Ministry of Defence. The flight transported first aid material for the victims of the severe floods that have hit the Niger in recent weeks. The flight was welcomed […]
Read moreScalfarotto: It is essential to maintaining a European perspective for Serbia and Kosovo
Undersecretary Ivan Scalfarotto has received the Kosovar State Coordinator, Skender Hyseni, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for dialogue with Serbia. The theme of the meeting, the Serbian-Kosovar negotiations in Brussels, resumed in July under the facilitation of the new EU Special Representative Lajcak. The Undersecretary reiterated Italy’s commitment to supporting the EU-facilitated dialogue and, […]
Read moreSignature of Artemis Accords for the exploration of space. Great satisfaction of the Undersecretary Di Stefano
Undersecretary of State Manlio Di Stefano: “great satisfaction for the signing of the Artemis Accords, a milestone that represents a tangible step forward 50 years after the first moon landing”. The Artemis Accords, signed today on the Italian side by the Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Hon. Riccardo Fraccaro with the […]
Read moreSereni to the tenth anniversary of the birth of the International Commission against the Death Penalty
“The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) plays a crucial role in the mobilization of governments and people for the abolition of the death penalty, a priority theme in Italy’s international action for the affirmation of human rights”. This what stated by the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Marina Sereni, speaking in a video […]
Read moreSudan. Vice Minister Del Re to Foreign Minister: peace agreement in Juba, well done
Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re had a telephone conversation with the interim Foreign Minister of Sudan, Omar Gamareldin Ismail. The Sudanese Minister thanked Italy for its assistance in dealing with Coronavirus emergency in Sudan through numerous initiatives of our Development Cooperation and for the recent sending of a humanitarian flight containing first aid material in […]
Read moreThird annual meeting of the Joint Development Cooperation Committee
Today the Foreign Ministry hosted the third annual meeting of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation, chaired by Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re. The Joint Committee approved a package of initiatives worth more than 25 million euros, aimed at cooperation initiatives in African, Asian and Latin American countries. In her introductory speech, the Vice Minister […]
Read moreVM Sereni celebrates twenty years of the Palermo Convention; one of Falcone’s dreams
The Vice Foreign Minister Marina Sereni opened, together with UNODOC Executive Director Ghada Waly, the videoconference work on the event for the 20th anniversary of the Palermo Convention – signed in December 2000 – promoted by Italy together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). “Almost 20 years after the signing of […]
Read moreVM Del Re receives Bioversity International General Manager
Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re received at the Foreign Ministry Juan Luca Restrepo, General Manager of Bioversity International, an international organisation based in Maccarese and part of the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) Consortium. The meeting enabled the Vice Minister to describe the most important current and future initiatives of the Bioversity International-CIAT […]
Read moreInternational day against the death penalty
On the World and European Day against the Death Penalty celebrated today, Italy reiterates its strongest condemnation of the death penalty in all circumstances. Italy believes that the Death Penalty has no deterrent value concerning crime while making any judicial error dramatically irreversible. In occasion of the ministerial week of the 75th session of the […]
Read moreNota Farnesina – Nagorno-Karabakh
We acknowledge positively the announcement of the humanitarian ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, facilitated by the Russian Federation. We appreciate the simultaneous commitment of the parties to promote substantive negotiations for the solution of the conflict. We reaffirm the impossibility of a solution to the conflict with arms and renew our call on the parties […]
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