{"id":1313,"date":"2016-12-20T13:19:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T12:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2016\/12\/il-ministro-degli-affari-esteri_1-2\/"},"modified":"2016-12-20T13:19:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T12:19:34","slug":"il-ministro-degli-affari-esteri_1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2016\/12\/il-ministro-degli-affari-esteri_1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano in London for bilateral talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"resource\/img\/2016\/12\/img_0843.jpg\" alt=\"img 0843\" width=\"746\" height=\"497\" \/><br \/><\/strong><em>Angelino Alfano and Boris Johnson during their talks at the FCO (picture: Foreign &#038; Commonwealth Office)<\/em><strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister Alfano met with the Foreign Secretary, as part of the new Italian foreign minister&#8217;s first tour of European capitals, with stops in Paris and London first and then Berlin, Madrid and Pristina.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe events of these last few hours in Berlin, Turkey and Jordan, are more than enough to explain that security and peace remain the fundamental issues on which to continue working together independently from the aspects linked to Brexit,\u201d said Foreign Minister<strong>\u00a0Angelino Alfano<\/strong> in London, on the fringes of a meeting at the Foreign Office with his British counterpart, Foreign Secretary\u00a0<strong>Boris Johnson<\/strong> and after being received at Downing Street \u2013 uncustomary for a Foreign Minister \u2013 by Prime Minister Theresa May who, like him, was formerly Minister of the Interior. Together with Mr Johnson, Mr Alfano emphasised that \u201cthe United Kingdom exits the EU but not Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the negotiations between London and Brussels, Italy\u2019s newly appointed foreign minister recalled that the negotiations will be conducted \u201cin compliance with Art. 50\u201d but also that Italy wishes the negotiations \u201cto be friendly and in the light of day, respecting rules and treaties\u201d. He went on to say that cooperating with Great Britain \u201cfor peace and security in Europe\u201d is also key in the transition towards Brexit. He said: \u201cWe have a number of essential issues to deal with together: from international security, to cooperation on the migration issue in the Mediterranean, to interventions in Africa to stop human traffickers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esteri.it\/mae\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/ministro-alfano-sui-tragici-fatti.html\">Minister Alfano on the tragic events in Berlin<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/foreign-secretary-meets-the-new-italian-foreign-minister-alfano-in-london\"><strong><em>News of the meeting on the website of the FCO<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"resource\/img\/2016\/12\/alfano_downingst.jpg\" alt=\"alfano downingst\" width=\"759\" height=\"505\" \/><br \/><em>Minister Alfano at Downing Street (picture: Salvatore Mancuso, SM Photo News Agency)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angelino Alfano and Boris Johnson during their talks at the FCO (picture: Foreign &#038; Commonwealth Office) Minister Alfano met with the Foreign Secretary, as part of the new Italian foreign minister&#8217;s first tour of European capitals, with stops in Paris and London first and then Berlin, Madrid and Pristina. \u201cThe events of these last few [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}