Italy's Senate speaker Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati on Tuesday met the Afghan government's chief executive Abdullah Abdullah at the Italian Senate in Rome, the upper house of parliament said in a statement.
At a meeting on Monday in Rome with Abdullah, Italy's foreign minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi voiced support for Afghanistan's stabilisation and its peace process.
Abdullah was in Rome to attend a board meeting of the United Nations World Food Programme and for "bilateral meetings", according to a foreign ministry statement.
Abdullah has been the government chief executive - a role with prime ministerial powers - since he lost the Afghan presidential race to Ashraf Ghani in 2014.