Foreign Minister: “Ready to be protagonists in Rome in 2030”
(From correspondent Piero Spinucci) – Italy National Day is celebrated at Expo 2020 Dubai. The ceremony, which took place under the dome of Al Wasl Plaza, one of the symbolic places of the Expo, saw the presence of the Italian authorities and Emirati, including the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, the Commissioner General of Italy, Paolo Glisenti, and the Minister for Tolerance and Coexistence of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan. After the flag-raising ceremony and the execution of the Italian and Emirati anthems, Di Maio took the floor, highlighting how the Expo is a“extraordinary opportunity, not only for Italy, to reach a truly global audience“.
“It is also the first ever Universal Exposition to be held in the Middle East, a crucial region that will offer unique opportunities for the full recovery of international tourism and investment flows”, continued Di Maio, highlighting how “with over 360 thousand visitors in the first five weeks (yesterday it exceeded 500 thousand visitors, ed) and about 10 thousand daily visits, the Italian Pavilion is one of the most popular“Then a passage on the candidacy of Rome as host city of the Universal Exposition in 2030 declaring that” we are ready and determined to contribute as protagonists “.
For his part, Minister Al Nahyan remarked that the Emirates and Italy “share a deep friendship” and we are “proud to have Italy as a reliable partner”, thus expressing “appreciation” to Di Maio for his “unique participation in the its kind “of Italy at Expo 2020 Dubai.
At the end of the ceremony there was a brief performance by the Carabinieri band. While not far away, at Earth Plaza, there was an exhibition of the flag-wavers of Città della Cava. Then the Italian and Emirati delegations, after a photo opportunity, went to the Italian Pavilion for a guided tour. Inside, the owner of the Farnesina participated in the inauguration of the exhibition on the archaeological assets recovered by the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of the Artistic Heritage and, subsequently, received an object in crystal with the symbol of the weapon.
After a visit to the Emirati pavilion, a series of meetings and an official lunch, the minister will open the workshop to enhance the attractiveness of Italy and to present the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Pnrr) entitled ‘Italy is back on track: Recovery, Resilience and Attractiveness’, to promote and represent the process of relaunching the Italian economy to an audience made up of top representatives of the financial and industrial communities of the UAE and the Gulf and international countries. The Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani, and that of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Enrico Giovannini will intervene remotely.
The celebrations for the Italy National Day will then continue in the UAE late afternoon with a concert by the Accademia alla Scala in Milan and an official dinner at the Italian pavilion.
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