Ambassador Vignali and Ambassador Bencini meet with an international group of students from the Rondine – Cittadella della Pace Association.
Geneva, 11 February 2026 The Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Luigi Maria Vignali, and the Permanent Representative of Italy to the Conference on Disarmament, Ambassador Leonardo Bencini, met today with an international group of students from the Rondine – Cittadella della Pace Association, coming from contexts of armed conflict […]
Read moreUNECE – Election of Dr Ciampi as President of the “Global Forum on Customs Questions affecting Transport”
On the occasion of the 171st session of the Global Forum on Customs Questions affecting Transport, held in Geneva from 10 to 13 February, Italian national Marco Ciampi, a senior official of the Italian Customs and Monopolies Agency, was elected President of the Global Forum for the year 2026. The Global Forum, a subsidiary body […]
Read moreRemembrance Day. Minister Tajani and the diplomatic network participate in commemorations
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is participating today in the ceremony dedicated to Remembrance Day, in memory of the victims of the foibe massacres and in solidarity with the Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian exiles and our national community in Slovenia and Croatia. The commemoration, scheduled to take place in the Chamber of Deputies, will be attended […]
Read moreAmbassador Vignali visits the Beyond Lab – a United Nations programme dedicated to innovation for sustainable development
At the invitation of the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Tatiana Valovaya, Italy’s Permanent Representative, Ambassador Luigi Maria Vignali, visited the Beyond Lab, a United Nations programme dedicated to innovation for sustainable development and to an intergenerational approach to public policymaking. The initiative is implemented in partnership with UN agencies, Member State […]
Read moreAmbassador Vignali’s remarks at a WIPO event on patents essential to achieving digital standards
The Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Luigi Maria Vignali, spoke at an event hosted at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the strategic relevance, in today’s economic landscape, of patents that are essential to the implementation of digital and technological standards (Standard Essential Patents – SEPs). SEPs are […]
Read morePresentation of credentials by the new Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Luigi Maria Vignali
Ambassador Luigi Maria Vignali, new Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, formally assumed his duties upon presenting his credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), Tatiana Valovaya, and to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Read moreConcert “From Morricone to Bacalov: the Music and Screen of Southern Italian Cinema” – Palais des Nations 5 February 2026
To celebrate the start of Italy’s new mandate at the Human Rights Council for the 2026-2028 term, the Permanent Mission is organizing the concert “From Morricone to Bacalov: the Music and Screen of Southern Italian Cinema” at the Assembly Hall of the Palais des Nations on 5 February 2026 at 6pm. We propose an innovative […]
Read moreStatement by President Mattarella to mark the 70th anniversary of Italy’s ratification of the United Nations Charter
The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, released the following statement: «Seventy years ago, on the 14th of December 1955, the Italian Republic was welcomed into the United Nations, the most important of modern international organizations, which was erected over the rubble of World War II with the express determination of “saving succeeding generations from […]
Read moreItalian cooking added to UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Minister Tajani: “Our cuisine is identity, tradition, growth and innovation”
Press release published on the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website During his mission to India, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, participated today, 10 December, in the session examining the nomination “Italian cooking, between sustainability and biocultural diversity” for inclusion in UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Submitted by the […]
Read moreStatement by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, on the occasion of the Human Rights Day
«Seventy-six years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights put a simple and revolutionary principle at the very heart of the international system: every person, as such, holds inviolable rights. That is the message the international community decided to entrust to the future, drawing lessons from the moral and material ruins the world wars left […]
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