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Blinken in Rome: “Strong relationship between the United States and Italy”

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Middle East, fight against terrorism, G20, Italy-US relations. The US secretary of state Antony Blink arrived in Rome with a full agenda of commitments, for a three-day trip in Italy under the banner of the renewed activism of the Biden administration across the Atlantic and on global issues. “Happy to be in Italy to underline the importance of transatlantic unity and the strong relationship between Italy and the United States,” he wrote on Twitter as soon as he arrived in the Italian capital.

The meeting with the Israeli foreign minister

The head of American diplomacy met with the foreign minister Luigi Di Maio at Villa Madama. In the evening he will see the new Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, in the first face to face between the new post-Netanyahu government and the US administration (Lapid will also see Di Maio and his colleague from Bahrain, a signatory country of the Abrahamic Agreements with Israel, together with the Emirates).

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Reception in the Vatican

On Monday, June 28, Blinken will be received by Pope francesco, then he will co-chair with Di Maio the meeting of the anti-Isis Coalition at the new fair in Rome: it will be the first time that Italy has hosted a meeting of the Coalition, two years after the last appointment in Washington.

The closure in Matera

Tuesday 29 June Blinken will close at Matera participating in the G20 Foreign Affairs, under the Italian presidency. The Italian agenda is based on three pillars of action: people, planet, prosperity. And therefore the international response to the pandemic, the rapid recovery of the world economy based on the needs of the people, the most vulnerable, women and young people, and sustainable development to protect climate stability. Goals that Rome wants to achieve with a renewed multilateralism, also being able to count on the new approach of the Biden administration that has abandoned the isolationism of the Trump era.

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