Defence Ministers Meeting (8 October 2015)
Minister Roberta Pinotti took part in NATO Defence Ministers Meeting on 8 October 2015. Taken from www.difesa.it: Today’s ministerial meeting focused on the implementation of the Readiness Action Plan (RAP), defining the long-term adaptation strategy that the Alliance intends to approve during next NATO Summit in Warsaw (July 2016), the situation in Syria and Afghanistan. […]
Read moreExercise Trident Juncture 2015 – General information and media accreditation
Exercise Trident Juncture 2015 involves 36,000 personnel from more than 30 Allied and Partner Nations and will take place throughout Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and also Canada, Norway, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. The exercise will demonstrate NATO’s new increased level of ambition as well as the Alliance’s capability and […]
Read moreAmbassador Zappia met a group of key opinion leaders from the Italian media and industry world
Ambassador Mariangela Zappia met a delegation of key Italian opinion leaders, among which: Finmeccanica, Sky Tg24, La7, il Fatto Quotidiano, IAI. The meeting focused, inter alia, on Italian and international public perception of NATO, the adaptation process of the Alliance within the framework of the Ukraine-Russia crisis and the growing instability in the Southern Flank, the […]
Read moreAccreditation deadline for NATO Meeting at the level of Defence Ministers on 8 October 2015.
We would like to remind you that the deadline for media accreditation to NATO Defence Ministers Meeting is 5 October 2015 (3 pm). Applications can be made here: https://my.hq.nato.int/More information about the Defence Ministers Meeting can be found here: http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_122384.htm
Read more11th Conference of Ambassadors, Rome, 27-28 July 2015
On 27 and 28 July 2015, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the 11th Conference of Ambassadors, which gathered 131 Italian Heads of Mission. The main theme of the event, attended by Ambassador Mariangela Zappia, revolved around the diplomacy for Italy (La diplomazia per l’Italia) and represented an opportunity for a wide reflection on […]
Read moreAmbassador Zappia participated in the meeting “The Challenges of Cyber-security – Perspectives from Italy&US”, which took place in Rome on 9 July 2015
Organized by the magazines Formiche and Airpress, in collaboration with the Italian delegation to NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the conference saw the participation of Minister of Defence Roberta Pinotti, Mr. Andrea Manciulli (Chairman of the Italian delegation) and Ambassador Mariangela Zappia. During her speech, Ambassador Zappia described the principles that guide the Alliance in terms of cyber-defence – […]
Read moreInternational Criminal Justice Day – Minister for Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni’s message
Today, 17 July, we celebrate the International Day of Criminal Justice in memory of a cardinal moment in the development of the rules for defending fundamental rights and punishing crimes that offend the very conscience of humankind.Indeed, the Statute adopted in Rome on 17 July 1998 made it possible to develop those instruments that today […]
Read moreDefence Ministers Meeting (24 June 2015)
Minister Roberta Pinotti took part in NATO Defence Ministers Meeting on 24 June 2015.Taken from www.difesa.it:The implementation of the Readiness Action Plan (RAP), the 2015 Political Guidance paper and the roadmap to next year’s Warsaw Summit are among the themes discussed at the NATO Defence Ministerial, attended today by Minister Pinotti. Minister Pinotti underlined the importance […]
Read more“Italy’s commitment to collective defence”. Editorial by Ambassador Mariangela ZAPPIA published in the June issue of Airpress.
Editorial by Ambassador Mariangela ZAPPIA. Airpress 57 June 2015
Read moreNATO Looks South – Mediterranean Security and Alliance Strategy
On 17th November, the Italian Delegation to NATO co-hosted, together with the US Delegation and the support of the German Marshall Fund in Brussels, an Away Day on the threats emanating from the Southern Flank and the related implications in terms of response by the Atlantic Alliance. A day of reflections and debates which, through […]
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