Relations with the United States are a "lodestar" for Italy's foreign policy, foreign minister Antonio Tajani wrote after talks with his US counterpart Antony Blinken at a G7 meeting on Capri late Wednesday.
Rains and deadly flash flooding in Afghanistan in recent days have thrown into stark relief the humanitarian needs of the impoverished country's population and the need to combat climate changed globally, according to Italy.
Foreign minister Antonio Tajani has expressed Italy's "closeness" to the United States after a container ship crashed into a major bridge in the port city of Baltimore on Tuesday, causing the bridge to collapse, leaving least seven people missing and multiple vehicles detected underwater.
Italy has appointed diplomat Paola Amadei its new envoy to Iran, the foreign minister wrote Monday on X (formerly Twitter).
Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani has deplored and attack on Euro-MP Alessandra Mussolini in a Strasbourg street in which she said she was struck on the back and shoulders with a crutch and insulted by an Italian-speaking man late on Monday.
Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani has tweeted "full solidarity" with rightwing premier Giorgia Meloni after participants at far-left rally in Rome scrawled insults and threats against her and burned an effigy.
Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani has tweeted best wishes to defence minister Guido Crosetto, who was admitted overnight to a Rome hospital suffering from severe chest pains (suspected pericarditis).
Italy backs the "unconditional release" over 100 hostages who have been held in Gaza by Hamas since the Palestinian Islamist group's surprise cross-border assault on 7 October in which 1,200 Israelis died.
Italy's government plays a leading role in Lebanon and the Middle East, helping train Lebanese soldiers and deploying over 1,000 Italian troops to the United Nations peacekeeping mission (Unifil), according to foreign minister Antonio Tajani,
The XVI Conference of Italian Ambassadors to the world will take place at the foreign ministry on 18-19 December, the ministry wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
