Time.news – On the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and the United States, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio will travel to Washington for a two-day visit that will see him engaged, starting tomorrow, in meetings with high-ranking institutional officials and leading figures in US civil society.
At the center of the talks will be excellent bilateral relations, collaboration on vaccines and post-Covid recovery, Libya and the main international issues including the central themes of our G20 presidency and CopP26 co-partnership, the Farnesina said in a note .
The visit program includes talks tomorrow with the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and with the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (Nih), Anthony Fauci, as well as a discussion with some exponents of important US think tanks: Karen Donfried, president of the German Marshall Fund, John Allen, president of Brookings, and Frederick Kempe, president of the Atlantic Council.
On Tuesday, the minister will participate in an event celebrating 160 years of Italian-US diplomatic relations and then go to the US House of Representatives where he will pay tribute to the police officer William Evans killed in the attack on 2 April and will offer a brief greeting to the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.
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