{"id":51302,"date":"2017-05-25T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2017\/05\/giornata-dell-africa-2017-2\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T12:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:10:01","slug":"giornata-dell-africa-2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2017\/05\/giornata-dell-africa-2017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Day 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Africa Day 2017&#8221; i<\/strong>s taking place today at the <strong>Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation <\/strong>to celebrate the 54th anniversary of the foundation of the African Union.<br \/>Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,\u00a0<strong>Angelino Alfano, <\/strong>said: \u201cIt is a celebration of great symbolic value, which takes place shortly\u00a0 before the Taormina G7 summit, which is dedicated to Africa and which\u00a0 gives me the chance to stress that the key point of Italy\u2019s foreign\u00a0 policy action must be, today more than ever before, to look to the\u00a0 Mediterranean and Africa.&#8221;<br \/>Those attending the event included: several ambassadors of African countries accredited with the Quirinal\u00a0 Palace, the President of the Senate Foreign Affairs Commission, the\u00a0<strong>Hon. Pier Ferdinando Casini, <\/strong>and representatives of institutions, universities, research institutes,\u00a0 business associations, international organisations and NGOs. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The General Manager for Globalisation and Global Matters of the Farnesina,\u00a0<strong>Massimo Gaiani<\/strong>, will open the event and read a greeting message from the President of the Republic,\u00a0<strong>Sergio Mattarella<\/strong>. There will be\u00a0 <strong>an address by Minister Alfano<\/strong>, and speeches by the acting President of the African Union,\u00a0<strong>S.E. Mohamed Ch\u00e9rif Diallo<\/strong>, the ambassador of the Republic of Guinea and the ambassador of the Republic of the Congo,\u00a0<strong>S.E. Mamadou Kamara Dekamo<\/strong>, representing the African diplomatic body at the Italian Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Africa Day 2017&#8221; is taking place today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to celebrate the 54th anniversary of the foundation of the African Union.Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,\u00a0Angelino Alfano, said: \u201cIt is a celebration of great symbolic value, which takes place shortly\u00a0 before the Taormina G7 summit, which is [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,76],"class_list":["post-51302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-africa","tag-ministri-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51302","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=51302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}