The Italian-Russian energy partnership is a \u201cmodel\u201d and the government has renewed its commitment \u201cto continue its support for the Southstream gas pipeline project in an ever-more open and multilateral manner\u201d. The point was underscored by Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi at the close of a meeting with Russia\u2019s Deputy Premier, Dmitry Rogozin, at the Farnesina today. Russia, as Terzi pointed out, is Italy\u2019s second gas and oil supplier. <\/P>
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International issues and bilateral relations<\/STRONG><\/P> The talks covered international issues and bilateral relations, in the run-up to Minister Terzi\u2019s visit to Moscow with other Italian colleagues for the Italian-Russian Economic and Financial Cooperation Council. The visit, on Monday 17 December, will provide an opportunity to examine partnership possibilities in a number of sectors, such as energy, transport, communications and aeronautical, explained the foreign minister. He also stressed the opportunity for infrastructure investment, with the Moscow and St. Petersburg high-speed rail lines and the Football World Cup in 2018. <\/P> Collaboration between \u201cintellectual resources\u201d<\/STRONG><\/P> Deputy Premier Rogozin emphasised the potential for collaboration by \u201cintellectual resources\u201d in the two countries, to achieve greater competitiveness on the international markets. He mentioned the enormous potential for development in eastern Russia, and the government\u2019s desire to attract foreign investment through significant fiscal advantages, such as zero income tax for start-ups in their first 10 years. <\/P> The two ministers also discussed Syria, on which subject, said Terzi, Italy and Russia have \u201ca shared vision of the need to find a political solution to the terrible crisis\u201d. Albeit, he added, \u201cwith differences in recent months between the government positions in Moscow and Rome, and the other European countries\u201d. Rogozin, for his part, criticised the external interference in the crisis and pointed out that the UN is the forum to find a solution that will bring peace.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian-Russian energy partnership is a \u201cmodel\u201d and the government has renewed its commitment \u201cto continue its support for the Southstream gas pipeline project in an ever-more open and multilateral manner\u201d. The point was underscored by Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi at the close of a meeting with Russia\u2019s Deputy Premier, Dmitry Rogozin, at the Farnesina […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,44,9,76,42],"class_list":["post-18227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-energia-ambiente","tag-europa","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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