World Humanitarian Summit (Istanbul, Turkey, 23-24 May 2016)
Statement delivered by the Hon. Mario Giro, Under-Secretary of State of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey — Mr. Secretary-General (Mister-Madame Chair), Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honored to address the first ever “World Humanitarian Summit” and I wish to praise the Secretary General’s […]
Read moreFirst Italy-Africa Ministerial Conference (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 18, 2016)
On Wednesday, 18 May at 9:30 a.m., the Farnesina will host the First Italy-Africa Ministerial Conference, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in conjunction with the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). The Rome-based conference is due to unite 45 ministers from an equal number of African Countries, their Permanent Representatives […]
Read moreStatement delivered by the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi, at the inaugural meeting of the Group “Friends of Migration”
Deputy Secretary General, Your Excellency Jan Eliasson, Ms. Karen Abuzayd, Special Adviser of the Secretary General, Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Director of UN Women and Chair of the Global Migration Group, I would like to thank the Permanent Missions of Bangladesh, Benin, Mexico and Sweden, for having invited Italy to take part to the inaugural […]
Read moreUndersecretary of State Enzo Amendola at the UN for High-Level Meetings
New York – On May 10-12, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Enzo Amendola was at UN headquarters in New York to take part in a series of meetings and high-level events. On Tuesday, May 10, Undersecretary Amendola presided over a meeting at the Permanent Mission of Italy to the UN on […]
Read moreWhy Italy on the UN Security Council?
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Read moreOpening remarks by the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi, at the IPI Policy Forum on “Working together for Peace and Security: moving from silos to synergies”
President Lykketoft,Ambassadors Pedersen and Kamau,Colleagues,Ladies and Gentlemen Italy is proud to join forces with Denmark, Kenya and – of course – IPI to present the strategic report on synergies and connectors between the three major reviews carried out last year in the field of peace and security: peacekeeping, peacebuilding and implementation of resolution 1325 on […]
Read moreOpening remarks by H. E. Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, at the UN Event “Mapping the vulnerability of mountain peoples to food insecurity: sharing the results of an FAO global study”
Mrs. Mucavi, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me welcome you all today and thank the co-organizers of an event that focuses on a topic dear to my Country, the peculiarities of mountains’ people and their vulnerability to food insecurity. Italy, with its rich biodiversity is also a land of mountains, with the Alps to the […]
Read moreStatement delivered by the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi, at the High-level conversation of the General Assembly on “Religions for Peace”
President of the General Assembly,Excellencies, colleagues, Today we are witnessing a new eruption of religious factors into international relations and religious stakeholders playing a greater role in foreign policy. A matter of particular concern is the regular, systematic nature of religious-based violence against individuals and against entire communities in various parts of the world. The […]
Read moreStatement delivered by Ambassador Inigo Lambertini, Deputy Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, at the Informal meeting of the General Assembly on the Secretary General’s Report on Refugees and Migrants
— Mr. President, Special Adviser AbuZayd, I thank you for organizing this meeting and for presenting the Report of the Secretary General to us. Italy aligns itself with the statement (to be) delivered by the European Union and wishes to add some national remarks. We welcome the report. It is a rich and comprehensive […]
Read moreStatement delivered by the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi, on behalf of the “Uniting for Consensus” Group at the General Assembly informal meeting on the Question of Equitable Representation and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and related matters
Madam Chair, On behalf of the Uniting for Consensus (UfC) group, I wish to thank you for convening this fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council reform, focusing on the two remaining clusters — “categories of membership” and “regional representation”. In mid-April, this same Trusteeship Council Chamber hosted the hearings for the candidates […]
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