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Foreign under-secretary Benedetto Della Vedova will on Wednesday begin a visit to Paris, where he will hold talks with members of the French government and parliament, the heads of Italy's cultural institutes in France and UNESCO chiefs.
Italy's premier Mario Draghi will on Wednesday meet with Tunisia's president Kais Saied at Palazzo Chigi, the prime minister's office in Rome, said a statement on the government's website. The statement gave no meeting agenda.
Italy on Tuesday welcomed the Indian Supreme Court's decision to drop proceedings against riflemen Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre over the 2012 killing of two fishermen, which have dogged bilateral relations for almost a decade.
Italy shares international concern at the devastating conflict in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, and urges an "immediate" ceasefire, the withdrawal of Eritrean troops and unfettered humanitarian access to the famine-hit region.
One of Italy's largest private groups, San Donato, has gifted state-of-the-art pediatric heart surgery equipment to La Rabta hospital in Tunis, the embassy tweeted on Friday.
British premier Boris Johnson on Friday congratulated Italy's prime minister Mario Draghi on his government's taming of the Coronavirus epidemic during its first months in power, sources in Draghi's office said.
Italy's foreign undersecretary Benedetto Della Vedova and New Zealand's ambassador Anthony Simpson on Friday signed an air services accord to boost commercial aviation between the two countries.
Italy and France can play a "decisive" role in determining Europe's future and will give its full support to France's upcoming presidency of the European Union Council - the bloc's decision-making body - foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said on Friday.
Italy recognizes Ukraine's hopes of joining the European Union and will back these in "concrete" ways, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said on Thursday during a visit to Kiev.
Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio on Thursday called on Ukraine and Russia to "make every possible effort" to apply the Minsk accords intended to bring peace to the war-torn Donbas region.
Italy is committed to Ukraine's sovereignty and opposes Russia's illegal 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said on Thursday during a visit to Kiev.
Italy has pledged 25 million euros to the Global Partnership for Education’s “Raise Your Hand” financing campaign, half of which will go to towards funding girls' education in Africa, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio will visit Ukraine on Thursday and hold talks there with its president Volodomyr Zelensky, as well as with premier Denys Shmygal, foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba and interior minister Arsen Avakov.
Italy has "excellent" ties with New Zealand and as G20 and APEC presidents respectively this year can work towards common goals, deputy foreign minister Manlio Di Stefano said on Wednesday.
The government tweeted Wednesday that it "strongly condemns" the ambush at the weekend of an Italian NGO vehicle in South Sudan in which two local aid workers were killed.
Italy is striving to restore the value of its trade with war-torn Libya to pre-conflict levels, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio told a business forum on Tuesday.
The Italian government has strongly condemned the terrorist attack in the southern Libyan city of Sebha on Sunday which was claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.
Italy's envoy to Bosnia-Herzegovina has welcomed a UN court's dismissal on Tuesday of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic's final appeal against his conviction for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The foreign ministry summoned the United Arab Emirates ambassador Omar al- Shamsi for talks on Tuesday after the UAE refused to allow an Italian military plane bound for Afghanistan to enter its airspace.
