{"id":92028,"date":"2022-11-25T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T13:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2022\/11\/rome-med-mediterranean-dialogues-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T16:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T15:24:01","slug":"rome-med-mediterranean-dialogues-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2022\/11\/rome-med-mediterranean-dialogues-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome MED \u2013 Mediterranean Dialogues 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eighth edition of the MED-Dialogues Conference promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and by ISPI<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWeathering the Storm: interdependence, resilience and cooperation\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Rome, 25 November 2022 \u2013 The eighth edition of the\u00a0Rome MED \u2013 Mediterranean Dialogues<\/strong>, Conference will be held from\u00a01 to 3 December 2022<\/strong>\u00a0in Rome, at Hotel Parco dei Principi, Via Gerolamo Frescobaldi, 5. The title of the event will be \u201cWeathering the storm: interdependence, resilience and cooperation<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Conference, set up, starting in 2015, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and by ISPI (Institute of Studies on International Politics)\u00a0will officially begin on Friday 2 December<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0with a greeting by the President of the Republic,\u00a0Sergio Mattarella<\/strong>\u00a0and remarks by\u00a0Antonio Tajani<\/strong>, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,\u00a0Mohamed Bazoum<\/strong>, President of Niger,\u00a0Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani<\/strong>, President of Mauritania and ISPI president\u00a0Giampiero Massolo<\/strong>. A statement by Italian Prime Minister\u00a0Giorgia Meloni\u00a0shall end the MED-Dialogues<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0in the afternoon of Saturday 3 December.<\/p>\n

On Thursday 1 December, Rome MED2022 will feature working sessions behind closed doors (the so-called \u201ctheme-based fora\u201d) to be attended by experts on the topics dealt with by the Conference.<\/p>\n

Currently, the participation of high-profile exponents from across the enlarged Mediterranean region, as well as of representatives from several relevant international organisations, has been confirmed. In addition to the previously mentioned Presidents of Mauritania and Niger, the event will be attended by\u00a0Prince Hassan Bin Talal<\/strong>\u00a0on behalf of the King of Jordan;\u00a0Ramtane Lamamra<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Algeria;\u00a0Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia;\u00a0Ayman Safadi<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jordan;\u00a0Fuad Hussein<\/strong>, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iraq;\u00a0Abdullah Bou Habib<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lebanon;\u00a0Najla El Mangoush<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Libya;\u00a0Riad Malki<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Palestine;\u00a0Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey;\u00a0Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Yemen;\u00a0Gordan Grli\u0107-Radman<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Croatia;\u00a0Kostantinos Skrekas<\/strong>, Minister of Energy and Environment, Greece;\u00a0Leo Docherty<\/strong>, Minister of State for Europe, United Kingdom;\u00a0Tanja Fajon<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia;\u00a0Jose Manuel Albares<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain;\u00a0Yael Lempert<\/strong>, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, U.S.;\u00a0Robert Malley<\/strong>, Special Representative for Iran;\u00a0Emanuela Del Re<\/strong>, EU Special Representative for the Sahel;\u00a0Paolo Gentiloni<\/strong>, European Commissioner for the Economy;\u00a0Dubravka \u0160uica<\/strong>, European Commissioner for Democracy and Demography;\u00a0Nazila Ghanea<\/strong>, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief;\u00a0Ahmed Aboul Gheit<\/strong>, Secretary-General, League of Arab States;\u00a0Rafael Mariano Grossi<\/strong>, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);\u00a0Nasser Kamel<\/strong>, Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean;\u00a0Kerri-Ann Jones<\/strong>, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD;\u00a0Geir O. Pedersen<\/strong>, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Syria, United Nations;\u00a0Joanna Wronecka<\/strong>, Special Coordinator for Lebanon, United Nations<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Rome Mediterranean Dialogues<\/strong>\u00a0is the major public diplomacy initiative of the Farnesina, held on a yearly basis. The event, co-organised with ISPI since 2015, gathers institutional representatives, experts, analysts, youths and stakeholders from the civil society, from the economic sphere and from the media to discuss the main challenges in the Mediterranean region and to bolster intra-regional cooperation, based on four pillars: \u201cShared security\u201d; \u201cShared prosperity\u201d; \u201cMigration\u201d; \u201cCulture and civil society\u201d. The event aims to promote a high-level, open and informal dialogue on the challenges facing the enlarged Mediterranean to strengthen the role of this region, which is strategic for Italy\u2019s foreign policy, through a shared drafting of a \u201cPositive Agenda\u201d, in order to give new momentum to the whole region: from being the epicentre of crises, the Mediterranean must go back to being an area where its people can thrive and develop, while also being a physical and ideal platform connecting Europe, Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0high-level sessions scheduled for this year\u2019s edition<\/strong>\u00a0shall encompass a number of topics, also associated with the impact, on the region, of the war in Ukraine, with a specific focus on energy and food security. In particular, the pillar \u201cSecurity\u201d will address all the sector or trans-sector priorities involving the region, from unsolved crises to the future of multilateralism and of the world order. The \u201cProsperity\u201d pillar shall include energy-related issues (security and transition) and food-related issues, water security, the rethinking of global value chains and the adaptation of urban areas to climate change. The \u201cMigration\u201d section will be addressed from a cross-sector standpoint. As for \u201cCulture and Civil Society\u201d, it will include panels dedicated to literature and combating disinformation.<\/p>\n

On 3 December, on the sidelines of the Conference, the second session of the Ministerial Dialogue on food security in the Mediterranean will take place.\u00a0<\/strong>This initiative was launched by Italy last June to respond to the Ukrainian war\u2019s repercussions on the availability of food commodities in a region whose countries are, on average, very reliant on the exportation of grain from Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n

Over time, MED Dialogues has become an initiative that\u00a0develops throughout the year<\/strong>: the contribution of ideas and proposals over the past months was consolidated by the publishing of 42 studies and by 25 \u201cTowards MED\u201d panels, featuring eminent international figures discussing the realities in the countries of the region.<\/p>\n

In just seven years, ROME MED has become the major international event dedicated to the\u00a0Mediterranean<\/strong>. The hybrid-format\u00a02021 edition\u00a0<\/strong>confirmed that this Conference is indeed a global event, for it was followed by over 15,000 people connected from over 100 countries, and this is further proof that its political and scientific relevance goes well beyond the boundaries of the enlarged Mediterranean. On the social media, the event reached 4.1 million views.\u00a0This year’s edition too will be streamed, at the following link:<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/med.ispionline.it<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In order to follow the event from the\u00a0virtual platform\u00a0<\/strong>you\u00a0<\/strong>must sign up by 30 November, 6:00 pm, by filling in the relevant\u00a0form<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0The statements by institutional figures will also be streamed on the YouTube channel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.<\/p>\n

The sessions may also be followed directly in the halls hosting the event (Sala Fernandes, Sala Sforza and Sala Farnese) by photographers and TV operators, and in the Press Room, via audio\/video link, by accredited journalists in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighth edition of the MED-Dialogues Conference promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and by ISPI \u00a0 \u201cWeathering the Storm: interdependence, resilience and cooperation\u201d   Rome, 25 November 2022 \u2013 The eighth edition of the\u00a0Rome MED \u2013 Mediterranean Dialogues, Conference will be held from\u00a01 to 3 December 2022\u00a0in Rome, at Hotel Parco […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,6],"class_list":["post-92028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-med","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92028","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92029,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92028\/revisions\/92029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}