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War-ravaged Libya, which picked an interim premier-designate in UN-sponsored inter-Libyan dialogue last month, is at a "crucial stage" in its quest for stability, Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said on Friday.
It is vital that war-torn Libya’s eastern-based parliament goes ahead with a special session on Monday to discuss holding a vote of confidence on an interim unified government, Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said Friday.
The government has blocked the export to Australia of more than 250,000 Oxford-AstraZeneca Coronavirus vaccine doses amid a new surge of COVID-19 and an "unacceptable" shortage of vaccine in Italy and the EU, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio stated on Thursday.
The foreign ministry on Thursday launched a website to showcase Italian culture and language around the word and bring it to new audiences amid strong demand, the ministry said in a statement.
Ambassador to Lebanon Nicoletta Bombardieri and the country's culture minister Abbas Mortada on Wednesday in Beirut presented a National Museum guide prepared by Italy's overseas aid department AICS.
The United Nations refugee agency and World Food Programme on Tuesday appealed for US$266 million to safeguard more than 3 million refugees in East Africa after funding shortages forced the world body to cut their rations by up to 60%.
Armando Barucco is Italy's new ambassador to Morocco, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Openness to international trade, European Union competitiveness, WTO reform, sustainable development, social and gender issues, and small-to-medium-sized firms are crucial themes of Italy's G20 presidency this year as well for the EU, Italy's foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Russia's expulsion of three European diplomats it accuses of taking part in protests against jailed opposition politician and Kremlin critic Alexi Navalny is of "grave concern", Italy's foreign ministry tweeted Friday.
The government welcomed the election of a new unified interim Libyan executive on Friday by 75 UN-appointed delegates in Geneva, calling the outcome of the vote "an important step" towards stabilising Italy's war-wracked former colony.
A 10% rise in deaths in Europe from January to November last year compared with the same period of 2016-2019 "shows the dramatic consequences" of the COVID-19 pandemic, EU economy commissioner Paolo Gentiloni tweeted on Friday.
The United Nations refugee chief Filippo Grandi praised US president Joe Biden’s pledge to raise the cap on the number of refugees from a 40-year-low under his predecessor Donald Trump, saying the move would save lives and send a powerful signal to the world.
As former European Bank president Mario Draghi began talks Thursday with Italy's party's on forming a new government, deputy foreign minister Marina Sereni tweeted that the Democratic Party (PD) will offer its input on ways to halt the COVID-19 pandemic and turn Coronvirus-ravage Italy around.
Italy praised the United States' renewal on Wednesday of the New START Treaty with Russia for another five years, calling the treaty "a key instrument" in nuclear arms control.
Foreign undersecretary Ricardo Merlo on Wednesday held talks with Matteo Corradini, who has been appointed Italy's first consul in Britain's northern city of Manchester, the ministry tweeted.
The foreign and European affairs committees of Italy's lower house of parliament will on Thursday question Portugal's ambassador to Italy Pedro Nuno Bartolo on the priorities of his country's six-month rotating European Union presidency, the parliament said in a statement.
Basic liberties and Coronavirus pandemic's impact on the most vulnerable was the focus of talks on Wednesday between Italy's ambassador to Algeria Giovanni Pugliese and the president of Algeria's national human rights council, Bouzid Lazhari, the embassy tweeted.
EU economy commissioner Paolo Gentiloni has welcomed Italy's president Sergio Mattarella's summoning of European Bank chief Mario Draghi for talks in Rome on Wednesday after Mattarella said he would seek a “high profile” executive.
Italy has deplored the three-and-a-half-year jail term that a Moscow court handed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday for breaching the terms of a suspended sentence for embezzlement.
