Vice Minister Del Re presides over an emergency meeting in Lebanon with Italian CSOs.
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Emanuela C. Del Re chaired today a meeting on the Lebanon emergency in a video conference with representatives of Italian civil society organizations (CSOs). The meeting took stock of the response to the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon following the tragic explosion in the port of Beirut on […]
Read moreAgreement on normalisation of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates
Italy welcomes the announcement of the agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. We hope that this important step will contribute to peace and stability in the Middle East. In this framework, the Israeli decision to suspend the annexation of portions of the West Bank is a positive development, which we […]
Read moreScalfarotto: concern about the situation in Belarus
“We express all our concern and associate ourselves with the appeals of the President of the European Parliament, Mr Sassoli, and High Representative Borrell on the situation in Belarus,” said Undersecretary Scalfarotto on the eve of the extraordinary Council of EU Foreign Ministers convened for tomorrow. “The Government’s repression must be stopped immediately and the […]
Read moreTelephone interview of Minister Di Maio with Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio had a telephone conversation with the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, on the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Minister reiterated the need for all parties to maintain a moderate and cooperative approach to reduce tensions and resolve outstanding issues. In this […]
Read moreScalfarotto: satisfaction for United States Trade Representative decision not to add new duties to Italian products.
Undersecretary Scalfarotto expressed great satisfaction for the decision of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) not to add any additional duty to Italian products as part of the six-monthly review of the measures adopted in implementation of the WTO ruling on Airbus subsidies, providing for increases only for specific categories of goods from France and […]
Read moreMinistry of Foreign Affairs: freed Italian journalist apprehended in Belarus
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that the Italian freelance journalist stopped by the Belarusian authorities in recent days has been released and is now at the Italian Embassy in Minsk.
Read moreLebanon: a humanitarian flight to Beirut
An Air Force flight took off this morning from Pisa to Beirut. The flight was loaded last night at the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi of about 2.4 tons of medical equipment (hygiene kits) made available by the Italian Cooperation to deal with the health emergency in Lebanon and the growing spread […]
Read moreBelarus: deep concern about the suppression of key civil rights and fundamental democratic freedoms
The wave of indiscriminate arrests over the last two days in Minsk, as well as the suppression of key civil rights and fundamental democratic freedoms, including the press, give rise to the deepest concern. These serious developments also followed an election which, according to many observers, not only local, has disappointed the expectations placed on […]
Read moreVice Minister Del Re intervenes at the videoconference on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon
Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re spoke at the video conference organised by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon. The meeting was chaired by Mark Lowcock, Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and introduced by Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Najat Rochdi, UN Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident […]
Read moreTelephone interview of Minister Di Maio with UN Secretary-General Guterres
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had today a telephone conversation with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, with whom he addressed the case of Mario Paciolla. The Minister expressed the strong Italian expectation that the competent Colombian authorities can continue to count on the full cooperation of […]
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