ITALY
PERMANENT OBSERVER
Date of Entry: May 17, 1972
National Day: June 2
Capital: Rome
Type of Government: Republic
Head of State: President Giorgio Napolitano (April 20, 2013)
Head of Government: Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (February 22, 2014)
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation: Paolo Gentiloni (October 31, 2014)
Permanent Observer: Ambassador Marilina Amellin (September 28, 2015)
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Population (in millions)
GDP (US$ in billions)
GDP per capita (US$)
2010
59
2,111.15
29,342.47
2011
59.19
2,055.36
29,756.45
2012
59.36
2,196.34
29,838.85
2013
59.39
2013.27
29,053.95
2014
59.69
2071.31
28,376.38
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FOREIGN RELATIONS AND COOPERATION POLICIES:
 The Italian foreign policy aims at promoting international global concerns such as democracy, human rights, with a
focus on the death penalty abolition, as well as encouraging disarmament and counter-terrorism activities, and
activities centered to supporting the environment and sustainable energy.
 As an integral part of Italy’s foreign policy, the Italian Development Cooperation’s approach is based on two priorities:
1) the need to ensure the protection of life and human dignity to all the planet’s inhabitants; and 2) a vision of
cooperation as a method by which to install, improve and strengthen relations among various countries and various
communities.
 This peer-to-peer exchange fosters relations aimed to promote economic and social growth with respect of the
environment and cultural variety and capable of protecting common assets such as water, food and energy, so as to
ensure the greater prosperity of populations and peace among people.
 Italy was one of the Founding members of the European Community — now the European Union (EU). The country
was admitted to the United Nations in 1955 and is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade/World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and
the Council of Europe. It chaired the CSCE (the forerunner of the OSCE) in 1994, the EU in 1996, and the G8 in 2001,
and held the EU presidency from July to December 2003 and July to December 2014.
INVOLVEMENT WITH THE AMERICAS:
 Italy has embassies in 24 countries of the Americas: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Uruguay and Venezuela.
THE ITALIAN-LATIN AMERICAN INSTITUTE (IILA)
 The IILA created in 1966 by Italy and 20 Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela), has the following objectives:
 To develop, coordinate research and documentation, and identify possibilities for exchange and mutual assistance
regarding the problems, achievements and prospects of its Member Countries in cultural, scientific, economic,
technical and social contexts.
 In pursuing these objectives IILA carries out the following activities:
 In the area of culture it creates activities aimed at spreading awareness of Latin American literature and other
forms of art and at shedding light on the contribution made by the Italian presence: exhibitions, encounters with
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Latin American writers and filmmakers, literary awards, concerts, theatrical performances, and the publication of
studies and research.
In the socio-economic sphere alongside the workshops, round tables and international conferences on financial,
economic and social policy that it organizes, it sponsors collaboration with the principal Latin American regional
institutions such as the Organization of American States (OAS), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the
Latin American Economic System (SELA) and with sub-regional integration organizations such as the Andean
Community (CAN). It also collaborates with the European Commission on the assignment and execution of specific
projects as well as through participation in projects that avail themselves of community instruments for the support
of Euro-Latin American small and medium-sized enterprises.
In the area of science and technology IILA focuses on sectors such as healthcare, the environment, geology, food,
energy and human resources through workshops, symposiums, studies, research and training courses carried out in
collaboration with the governments, scientific and academic institutions and specialized agencies of Member
Countries.
CASH CONTRIBUTIONS 2005-2014:
$317,555.00
$432,707.00
$681,166.00
$1,120,697.36
$290,739.00
$236,225.00
$222,422.00
$130,518.00
$100,274.00
$73,026.00
P.O. FINANCIAL
CONTRIBUTIONS
$11,650,039.00
$19,060,470.00
$20,398,686.00
$25,825,003.00
$20,318,115.00
$15,791,981.00
$15,766,616.00
$13,380,831.00
$17,044,751.00
$12,839,227.00
2.73%
2.27%
3.34%
4.34%
1.43%
1.50%
1.41%
0.98%
0.59%
0.57%
$3,605,329.36
$172,075,719.00
2.10%
YEAR
ITALY
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Total
US$
%
ITALY CONTRIBUTIONS:
YEAR
2000
PROJECTS
FINANCIAL
CONTRIBUTIONS
IN US$
Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (UPD) – Supporting the Electoral
Process
SUBTOTAL
2001
Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (UPD) – Demining Program
Department of Democratic Sustainability and Special Missions (DSDSM) Peace Fund (Honduras-Nicaragua Verification System)
$10,000.00
$10,000.00
$100,000.00
$13,000.00
Inter-American Commission Against Terrorism (CICTE) -Technical
Equipment for Offices
Haiti – Computers for the Special Mission
SUBTOTAL
2003
Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (UPD) – Demining Program
SUBTOTAL
2004
Office of Sustainable Development
Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (UPD) – Demining Program
Secretariat for Political Affairs (SPA)
Special Mission in Haiti (Equipment)
SUBTOTAL
IN-KIND
CONTRIBUTIONS
IN US$
$24,000.00
$100,000.00
$380,330.00
$380,330.00
$100,000.00
$440,448.00
$127,300.00
$667,748.00
$17,000.00
$54,000.00
$15,000.00
$15,000.00
2005
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) – Promoting
Human Rights Education in the Caribbean
$61,950.00
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) – Rapporteurship
for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
$61,950.00
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) – Rapporteurship
for the Rights of Persons Deprived of Freedom
$61,950.00
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) – Strengthening
the System of IACHR’s Cases
$22,618.00
Department of Democratic and Political Affairs (DDPA) – Political Party
Focus on Haiti
$61,985.00
Department of Democratic and Political Affairs (DDPA) – Special Mission
Strengthening Democracy in Haiti
Department of Multidimensional Security (DMS) – Demining Program
SUBTOTAL
2006
Department of Multidimensional Security (DMS) – Demining Program
$19,455.00
$27,647.00
$317,555.00
$293,735.00
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) – Promoting
Human Rights in the Andean Region and Central America
$86,388.00
Summit Follow-Up – Elaboration of the American Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples
$52,584.00
SUBTOTAL
2007
Department for the Prevention of Threats Against Public Security –
Demining Programs Nicaragua, Ecuador/Peru, Colombia, Central
America, and Chile; Rehabilitation for Victims of Demining in Colombia
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) – Promotion of
Human Rights in Central America, Human Rights in Colombia, Special
Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
SUBTOTAL
2008
Department of Public Security (DPS) – Office of Humanitarian Mine
Action (AICMA) – Nicaragua/Ecuador
$432,707.00
$549,508.00
$131,658.00
$681,166.00
$40,376.00
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Nicaragua – Mine Risk Education
$17,770.71
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Nicaragua – Victim Assistance
$172,422.93
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Colombia – Mine Risk Education and
Victim Assistance
$23,694.28
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Ecuador/Peru – Mine Risk Education
$46,203.84
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Ecuador/Peru – Equipment
$23,072.79
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Nicaragua
$73,590.00
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Colombia
$36,795.00
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Ecuador/Peru
$36,795.00
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Colombia/Ecuador
$85,508.38
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Colombia – Victim Assistance
$63,575.00
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Nicaragua/Central America – Victim
Assistance
$77,609.80
Justice Studies Center of the Americas (CEJA) – Best Practices for
Investigating, Prosecuting, and Punishing Homicide and Corruption in the
Americas (Training Activities and Publications)
$78,325.63
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) – Promoting and
Protecting Human Rights in the Caribbean
$63,575.00
Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI) – Civil Registry
Information Reconstruction in Huancavelica, Peru (Supplies, documents,
and printing material)
$97,906.00
Secretariat for Legal Affairs (SLA) – Paraguay Program for the Facilitation
of Access to the Judiciary Service (Judicial Facilitators Program)
$65,006.00
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) – Promoting and
Protecting Human Rights
$118,471.00
SUBTOTAL
2009
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) - Colombia
$1,120,697.36
$61,000.00
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Demining Programs - Ecuador-Peru
$24,938.00
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Victim Assistance in Central America
$45,068.00
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) – Initiative on
Public Policies Regarding Citizen Security and Human Rights in the
Americas
$29,762.00
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Mine Victim Assistance Program
$129,971.00
SUBTOTAL
2010
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) – Demining Programs – Cordillera del
Condor Region of Ecuador/Peru
$290,739.00
$21,940.00
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) - Demining - Rehabilitation of Mine
Survivors in Central America (Honduras and Nicaragua)
$45,217.00
Department of Public Security (DPS)- Comprehensive Action Against
Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) - Demining - Demining and Education on
Mine Risk in the Cordillera del Condor Region of Ecuador and Peru
$45,217.00
Department of International Law - Judicial Facilitators Guatemala
SUBTOTAL
2011
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security / Unit for Policies and Programs
- Plan de Acción Integrado para Ayudar a los Estados Miembros a
Responder a la Amenaza de Crimen Organizado Transnacional (COT)
$123,851.25
$236,225.25
$64,360.00
Secretariat for Political Affairs / Department for Electoral Cooperation
and Observation – Electoral Observation Mission to Nicaragua
$25,744.00
Secretariat for Political Affairs / Department for Electoral Cooperation
and Observation – Electoral Observation Mission to Guatemala
$12,872.00
Secretariat for Political Affairs / Department for Electoral Cooperation
and Observation – Electoral Observation Mission to Colombia
$12,872.00
Secretariat for Political Affairs / Department for Electoral Cooperation
and Observation – Audit of the Electoral Registry in Colombia
$12,872.00
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security / Department of Public Security
– Control and Destruction of Firearms, Light Weapons, Munitions and
Related Materials
$93,702.00
SUBTOTAL
2012
Secretariat for Political Affairs / Department of Effective Public
Management - Reconstruction of Civil Registry Information and
Regularization of People Affected by the Armed Conflict in Huancavelica
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security / Department of Public Security
- Demining Activities in Honduras and Ecuador (AICMA)
Electoral Observation Mission - Paraguay
SUBTOTAL
2013
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security / Department of Public Security
- Humanitarian Demining and Mine Risk Education in the Cordillera del
Condor (AICMA)
Electoral Observation Mission in El Salvador
SUBTOTAL
2014
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security / Department of Public Security
- Integral Landmine Victim Assistance and Socio-economic Reinsertion in
Colombia
SUBTOTAL
2015
Secretariat for Political Affairs / Department of Electoral Cooperation and
Observation - Electoral Observation Mission for the General and Regional
Elections in Guyana, May 11, 2015
Secretariat for Political Affairs / Department of Electoral Cooperation and
Observation - Electoral Observation Mission for the General Elections in
Suriname, May 25, 2015
Secretariat for Political Affairs / Department of Electoral Cooperation and
Observation - Electoral Observation Missions in Haiti
Secretariat for Political Affairs/ Department of Electoral Cooperation and
Observation- Electoral Observation Missions in Guatemala, October 2015
(20,000 Euros)
Project “Landmine survivor assistance and socio-economic reinsertion in
Colombia” (75,000 Euros)
SUBTOTAL
TOTAL
$222,422.00
$7,421.00
$90,867.00
$32,230.00
$130,518.00
$73,506.30
$26,768.00
$100,274.30
$73,026.00
$73,026.00
$11,048.00
$11,048.00
$32,865.00
$21,489.00
$80,583.75
$157,033.75
$4,855,480.66
SOURCES:
GOVERNO ITALIANO - PRESIDENZA DEL CONSIGLIO DEI MINISTRI
http://www.governo.it/Presidente/index.html
THE ITALIAN-LATIN AMERICAN INSTITUTE (IILA)
COOPERAZIONE ITALIANA ALLO SVILUPPO
http://www.cooperazioneallosviluppo.esteri.it/pdgcs/
$79,000.00
http://www.iila.org/index.php?lang=it
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF ITALY
http://www.esteri.it/MAE/EN
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