This morning, the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Hon. Gianfranco Fini, visited the military base of Shama in southern Lebanon, to convey the Italian Parliament greetings to the soldiers engaged in the UNIFIL mission during the holiday season.
Read moreDuring his two-day visit, the Italian Minister met with the President of the Republic, Michel Sleiman, the Speaker Nabih Berri, the Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and the Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fawzi Salloukh. The Minister Frattini paid also a visit to the Italian Contingent operating within UNIFIL plus in South Lebanon. Before his departure, […]
Read moreTwo hundred foreign delegations, including the Italian one headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini, attended the election of Gen. Michel Sleiman as President of the Lebanese Republic. The election of President Sleiman marks the end of the political-institutional crisis of 2008.
Read moreThis mission takes place in the framework of the efforts by the international community, in particular by Italy, France and Spain, aimed at encouraging the finalisation of an agreement on the new President of the Republic based on the broadest possible consensus. Italy is also committed in Lebanon by virtue of the role it has assumed in favor of stabilizing […]
Read moreThe French, Spanish and Italian foreign ministers arrived in Lebanon on Friday evening on a joint mission,aimed at encouraging the political forces to agree on a consensual candidate, four days before the parliamentary session scheduled for the election of the new president.Bernard Kouchner, Miguel Angel Moratinos and Massimo D’Alema will meet with Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Speaker of the […]
Read moreThe Italian Minister met, during his visit, with the Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, the Maronite Patriarch Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, and MP Saad Hariri. Minister D’Alema will meet as well with Gen. Michel Aoun tomorrow in Rome.
Read moreOn Saturday, the Italian Speaker met with his Lebanese counterpart Nabih Berri and with Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. On Sunday, he paid a visit to the Italian troops in Tibnin.
Read moreThe Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Massimo D’Alema, paid a visit to Lebanon on Wednesday December 20, 2006. The Italian Minister met with Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Fouad Siniora before visiting the Italian Contingent in Tibnin. Before his departure, the Minister held a press […]
Read moreThe Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Massimo D’Alema, arrived in Lebanon from Rome on board of a military plane landed at the international airport of Beirut, which is still closed to commercial traffic. The first meeting with his Lebanese counterpart Fawzi Salloukh took place amid the rubble of the southern suburb of Beirut, […]
Read moreIn the early afternoon of today 11 October on board of the Garibaldi ship, headquarters of the Command of Task Force 425, the Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, accompanied by the Minister of Defense Arturo Parisi and the Chief of Defense Staff Giampaolo di Paola, received the Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.The Lebanese Premier expressed moving words […]
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