Italy unveils Beirut museum guide
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.
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 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.
Amid rising tensions between the US and Iran over its nuclear work and following a US airstrike on 25 February on alleged Iran-backed militants in eastern Syria, Italy wants to aid "constructive dialogue" with Tehran, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said on Friday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
