The work of the Foreign Ministry continues: 583 people repatriated today, a total of 107,200.
The Ministry’s efforts to ensure that stranded compatriots all over the world can return home safely are not backtracked. Today alone, more than 580 people returned to Italy through air operations from Morocco, Oman, Kenya, and Niger. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 emergency, the Ministry, thanks to the incessant work of the Crisis Unit, […]
Read moreDi Maio talking with Albanian Prime Minister Rama
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama. The talk focused on the excellent bilateral relations between Italy and Albania. Such synergy was confirmed by the arrival of Albanian doctors in Italy, during critical phases of the pandemic, as well […]
Read moreItaly – United Kingdom: Del Re talking with Trevelyan
Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re had a videoconference with the UK Secretary of State for International Development, Anne Marie Trevelyan. She highlighted the country’s great commitment to food security and the goal of making full use of FAO, PAM, and IFAD’s mandate to achieve important results, made even more urgent by the pandemic, in this […]
Read moreConversation between Minister Luigi Di Maio and the Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had today a telephone conversation with the Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi. Numerous topics were at the centre of the conversation: the Italy-ASEAN relations, the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the strengthening of the economic-commercial exchange. Minister Di Maio stressed that […]
Read moreNote by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Democratic Republic of Congo
60 years after the birth of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy recalls that the peacemaking process in the Est area is still far away. Italy follows with the utmost attention the progressive deterioration of security conditions in the East provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri), where since […]
Read moreFirst meeting of the inter-institutional Operating Committee on Italy’s contribution to the prevention of and global response to COVID-19
Today, at the Foreign Ministry, Minister Luigi Di Maio opened the first meeting of the inter-institutional Operating Committee on Italy’s contribution to the prevention of and global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Minister thanked the Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Re, who promoted and chairs the Committee, which includes, among its members, representatives of the […]
Read moreVideo talk between Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano and Vietnamese Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Hoang Quoc Vuong
Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano held a video talk today with the Vietnamese Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Hoang Quoc Vuong. The talk was an opportunity to sign the new Memorandum of Understanding on the Italian-Vietnamese Mixed Economic Commission (MEC), as well as to take stock of bilateral economic relations in view of the next MEC […]
Read moreMinister Di Maio speaks at the IV Brussels Conference on Syria
Minister Di Maio spoke today by video conference at the Fourth Brussels Conference on Syria, an event sponsored by the European Union and the United Nations with the aim of raising the necessary funds to tackle the humanitarian and health emergency in Syria and neighbouring countries and reaffirm the international community’s support for a negotiated […]
Read moreMeeting of Minister Di Maio with the Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó
Today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the bilateral meeting between Minister Di Maio and the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó, visiting Italy, took place at the Farnesina, seat of the Ministry. Minister Di Maio, first, thanked Minister Szijjártó for the solidarity shown by the Hungarian Government that, in the most […]
Read moreParticipation of the Vice Minister Del Re at the Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies for the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Declaration
Vice Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Re attended in virtual format the today’s ministerial conference of the Community of Democracies for the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Warsaw Declaration of 2000, signed by 106 countries, including Italy. In her speech, the Deputy Minister stressed the continuing validity of the Warsaw Declaration, reaffirming Italy’s commitment […]
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