Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani will be in Istanbul today to take part in a 4+4 ministerial meeting on the Middle East and major international crises, organised by Germany and T\u00fcrkiye. The meeting will bring together the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom on the European side, and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the R4 countries: T\u00fcrkiye, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt. R4 is a regional consultation forum established in March by the four countries to strengthen coordination in the context of regional crises and to support efforts to foster dialogue between the US and Iran.<\/p>\n
The meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss Iran and the Strait of Hormuz; tensions in Yemen and the Red Sea; freedom of navigation; and developments in the West Bank, Gaza and the Middle East.<\/p>\n
Minister Tajani will take part in the meeting, sharing Italy\u2019s experience in the region across a range of areas, starting with its contribution to missions safeguarding freedom of navigation and security in the wider Mediterranean \u2013 from ASPIDES in the Red Sea, to Atalanta in the Indian Ocean and Irini \u2013 and to humanitarian aid projects in Gaza. Italy is committed to safeguarding the prospect of a Two-State Solution, having also hosted a meeting of the Global Alliance for the Two-State Solution in Rome in August 2026. Also in Rome, our country hosted two rounds of talks between Israel and Lebanon, facilitated by the United States.<\/p>\n
Amid the ongoing crisis between the United States and Iran, Italy has launched the Rome Coalition on Fertilizer Access and Food Security with the MED9 countries, the Balkan countries and the Middle East to address the crisis\u2019s impact on freedom of navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani will be in Istanbul today to take part in a 4+4 ministerial meeting on the Middle East and major international crises, organised by Germany and T\u00fcrkiye. The meeting will bring together the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom on the European side, and […]","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":209764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,28,404],"class_list":["post-209769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-ministro","tag-sicurezza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209769","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209773,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209769\/revisions\/209773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}