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- 0:07Speaker 1: Welcome back to the many events of Italian diplomatic activity abroad.
- 0:10Speaker 1: On July twenty three, Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Taiani,
- 0:15Speaker 1: spoke in Verona at a closing session of the Conference
- 0:18Speaker 1: of Directors of the Italian Cultural Institutes. The annual gathering
- 0:22Speaker 1: brings together the heads of Italy's worldwide cultural network to
- 0:26Speaker 1: define the priorities of Italian cultural diplomacy and strengthen cooperation
- 0:30Speaker 1: between the Italian cultural institutes and the cultural and institutional
- 0:34Speaker 1: excellence of the Verona region. During his address, Minister Talliani
- 0:38Speaker 1: outlined the Foreign Ministry's strategy following the recent institutional reform,
- 0:42Speaker 1: which has made cultural promotion one of the key pillars
- 0:46Speaker 1: for economic growth, the internationalization of the Italian system and
- 0:50Speaker 1: support for Italian businesses abroad. Gaze. Thank you to all
- 0:58Speaker 1: the directors for what you do, what you represent. Everything
- 1:01Speaker 1: Italian is a part of our identity, and the Italian
- 1:04Speaker 1: cultural institutes are right not to limit themselves to what
- 1:08Speaker 1: was once considered culture in the narrow sense. I believe
- 1:11Speaker 1: you should be increasingly valued by our ministry, so we
- 1:15Speaker 1: will do everything we can to ensure you are able
- 1:18Speaker 1: to words to the fullest Kini Tarimo di tutto per
- 1:22Speaker 1: farids and model milor today in the natural Italian cultural
- 1:29Speaker 1: Institutes includes eighty eight offices in sixty three countries, organizing
- 1:33Speaker 1: more than five thousand cultural events and initiatives every year.
- 1:38Speaker 1: On July twentieth, on the sidelines of the mainzing between
- 1:41Speaker 1: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Portuguese Prime Minister Louis Montenegro,
- 1:46Speaker 1: four minutes antonioto Yani signed an agreement with Portugal Foreign
- 1:49Speaker 1: Minister Paulo Ranzel aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation through regular
- 1:54Speaker 1: consultations between the two ministries of Foreign Affairs. The agreement
- 1:59Speaker 1: will allowed this Portuguese diplomatic services to work more closely
- 2:03Speaker 1: in exploring new opportunities for cooperation in the cultural, scientific
- 2:08Speaker 1: and economic sectors, also building on a strong presence of
- 2:11Speaker 1: measured Italian companies in Portugal. In twenty twenty five, bilateral
- 2:15Speaker 1: trade between the two countries approached ten billion euros, presenting
- 2:20Speaker 1: a five point six percent increase compared with the previous year.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Together with the Southern Foreign Minister, on twenty eight and
- 2:28Speaker 1: twenty nine of July, I will co chair in Rome
- 2:31Speaker 1: a meeting of the Global Alliance for the Two States Solution.
- 2:34Speaker 1: We will give new momentum to the New York Declaration
- 2:37Speaker 1: which we signed last year. This was announced by Foreign
- 2:40Speaker 1: Minister Twitoyani on July twenty second, during its hearing before
- 2:44Speaker 1: the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the outcomes of the
- 2:47Speaker 1: Native Summit held in Ankara. Minister Taiani also announced that
- 2:51Speaker 1: a new round of US mediated talks between Israel and
- 2:54Speaker 1: Lebanon will take place in Rome on fourth of August,
- 2:57Speaker 1: and ligning that Italy continues to play a li ading
- 3:00Speaker 1: diplomatic role in this process. Mistaiani, together with the Commander
- 3:03Speaker 1: General of the Carabinieri Savatory of Lungo, took part in
- 3:06Speaker 1: the closing event of the Initiative to Carabineri Meat Diplomacy,
- 3:10Speaker 1: a training program designed to introduce future Carabinieri officers to
- 3:14Speaker 1: the Ministry of Forign Affairs and its activities. The program
- 3:18Speaker 1: focused on conducting illicit trafficking, addressing the international challenges connected
- 3:22Speaker 1: to organized crime, and promoting the best practices of cooperation
- 3:26Speaker 1: within the Italian institutional system. Policeipents included sixty to thirty
- 3:31Speaker 1: year officers carets from the two hundred and third Carabbin
- 3:34Speaker 1: Area Advanced Course alongside young diplomats from the Renato Rugiero
- 3:39Speaker 1: Diplomatic Competition. Carabinera country is serving numerous international missions including Lebanon,
- 3:44Speaker 1: Cause of Iraq, Somalia, Palestine, Jibuti, Raphaan, Niejer and Libya.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Their international network includes more than five hundred sixty Carabinieri
- 3:53Speaker 1: personnel deployed across two hundred and twenty one Italian diplomatic
- 3:56Speaker 1: missions worldwide, where they are also responsible for in during
- 4:00Speaker 1: the security of diplomatic staff. Deputy Prime Minister Foreign Fairs
- 4:04Speaker 1: at Mundo Chiiali traveled to the United Kingdom where he
- 4:07Speaker 1: met with Stephan Doughty, the British Minister of State for Europe,
- 4:11Speaker 1: North America and the Overseas Territories, who was recently confirmed
- 4:15Speaker 1: by the new Prime Minister and the Burdenham. The meeting
- 4:19Speaker 1: reaffirmed the excellent state of Balada relations between Italy and
- 4:22Speaker 1: the United Kingdom in the field of politics, economic cooperation
- 4:25Speaker 1: and strategic partnership. Both sides also welcome to continued growth
- 4:30Speaker 1: in bilateral trade, which reached thirty five billion euro in
- 4:34Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Laura Egoli has been appointed Italy's new
- 4:39Speaker 1: ambassador to Mountenegro. A career diplomat since nineteen ninety six,
- 4:43Speaker 1: Ambassador Egoli served in China and in several departments of
- 4:47Speaker 1: the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Since succeeds Andreina Marcella, who
- 4:52Speaker 1: has taken up her new post at Italy's Ambassador to
- 4:55Speaker 1: Latvia following previous assignment in Cabul, Tunis and Tripoli. The
- 5:00Speaker 1: time Minister of Foreign Affairs, together with the Department for
- 5:02Speaker 1: Digital Transformation and Presidency of the Council of Ministers and
- 5:06Speaker 1: the State Printing Office and MINT, has launched a measure
- 5:09Speaker 1: pilot project to digitalize some of the most valuable collection
- 5:13Speaker 1: preserved in the historical diplomatic archive of the Ministry. The
- 5:17Speaker 1: project will digitized more than five hundred sixty linear meters
- 5:21Speaker 1: of archival documentation relating to Italian communities abroad, the Mussolini
- 5:26Speaker 1: government in nineteen twenty three, nineteen forty three, Minister of
- 5:29Speaker 1: Italian Africa and the various peace conference in nineteen eighteen
- 5:33Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two, all part of the ministry overall archive
- 5:36Speaker 1: of approximately thirty three kilometers of historical records. Thanks to
- 5:41Speaker 1: this initiative, an important portion of the pharnacy in historical
- 5:44Speaker 1: documentary Heritage would become accessible online through a dedicated digital portal,
- 5:49Speaker 1: and it's off now. Thanks for your attention and stay tuned.