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This is a list of international prime ministerial trips made by Giuseppe Conte, who served as the 58th Prime Minister of Italy from 1 June 2018 until 13 February 2021.[1]
Summary of international trips
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| Number of visits | Country |
|---|---|
| 8 visits | Belgium |
| 3 visits | France, United States |
| 2 visits | Egypt, Germany, Lebanon, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom |
| 1 visit | Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Eritrea, India, Japan, Libya, Malta, Netherlands, Oman, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey |
2018
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| Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Malbaie | 7โ9 June | Prime Minister Conte's state visit to Canada was his first trip outside Italy as head of the government. Conte participated to the 44th G7 summit. During the two days he had bilateral meetings with the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Council Donald Tusk, the British Prime Minister Theresa May and with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzล Abe.[2] | |
| Paris | 15 June | Conte met French President Emmanuel Macron at the รlysรฉe Palace. The two leaders mainly discussed about the European migrant crisis and the immigration policy promoted by the new Italian government.[3] | |
| Berlin | 18 June | Conte went to Berlin to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The two leaders mainly discussed about the European migrant crisis and the immigration policy promoted by the new Italian government.[4] | |
| Brussels | 28โ29 June | Conte attended in his first European Council. The main topic of the summit was the contrast to illegal immigration to Europe and the repartition of refugees between the countries.[5] | |
| Brussels | 11โ12 July | Conte participated to the 2018 NATO summit in Brussels. The leaders discussed about fight to global terrorism and the situation in North Africa.[6] | |
| Washington, D.C. | 29โ30 July | Conte met United States President Donald Trump at the White House. The two leaders discussed about immigration, Libyan crisis, global trade and tariffs.[7] | |
| Salzburg | 19โ20 September | Conte participated to an informal summit of the European Council. The summit was focused on the contrast to illegal immigration.[8] | |
| New York City | 25โ26 September | Conte participated to the General Debate of the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly. His first speech as Prime Minister at the General Assembly was focused on immigration, national sovereignty and populism. He met the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antรณnio Guterres.[9] | |
| Addis Abeba | 11โ12 October | Conte met Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and THE Deputy Chairman of the Commission of the African Union Thomas Kwasi Quartey. Conte discussed with Ahmed about economic investments in the region after the normalization of relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea, after years of tensions and conflict.[10] | |
| Asmara | 12 October | Conte met Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki. The two leaders discussed about economic growth and investments in the region after the normalization of relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea.[11] | |
| Brussels | 17โ19 October | Conte participated to a meeting of the European Council and an Africa-EU Summit. | |
| Moscow | 24 October | Conte met Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev | |
| New Delhi | 29โ30 October | Conte met Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi | |
| Tunis | 2 November | Conte met the Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi and the Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed | |
| Algeri | 5 November | Conte met the Prime Minister of Algeria Ahmed Ouyahia | |
| Abu Dhabi | 15 November | Conte met the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan | |
| Buenos Aires | 29 November โ 1 December | Conte participated to the 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit. | |
| Benghazi | 23โ24 December | Conte met with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.[12] |
2019
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| Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davos | 22 January | Working Visit | |
| Abu Dhabi | 27 January | Conte met the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan | |
| Muscat | 27 January | Conte met with the Sultan Qaboos bin Said. | |
| Nicosia | 29 January | Conte attended the EuroMed 7 summit. | |
| Beirut | 7 February | Conte met with the president Saad Hariri. | |
| Sharm-el-Sheikh | 24โ25 February | Conte attended the first-ever Arab League-European Union summit. | |
| Brussels | 21โ22 March | Conte attended a summit about extending Article 50 in the Brexit talks. | |
| Doha | 3 April | Conte met with the Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. | |
| Brussels | 10 April | Conte attended an EU Summit over Brexit. | |
| Tunis | 30 April | Conte met with prime minister Youssef Chahed and president Beji Caid Essebsi. | |
| Sibiu | 9 May | Conte attended EU summit about the future and Brexit. | |
| Hanoi | 5โ6 June | Conte met with prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and attended at the High-Level Dialogue on ASEAN-Italy Economic Relation.[13] | |
| Valletta | 14 June | Conte attended the EuroMed 7 summit. | |
| Brussels | 20โ21 June | Conte attended a summit. | |
| Osaka | 27โ29 June | Conte participated to the 2019 G20 Osaka summit. | |
| Biarritz | 24โ26 August | Conte participated to the 45th G7 summit. | |
| New York City | 24 September | Attended General debate of the seventy-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly | |
| Watford | 3-4 December | Conte participated to the 2019 London summit. |
2020
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| Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Notes |
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| Ankara | 13 January | Conte met the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. | |
| Cairo | 14 January | Conte met the President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. | |
| Algeri | 16 January | Conte met the Prime Minister of Algeria Abdelaziz Djerad and the President of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune. | |
| Berlin | 19 January | Conte travelled to Berlin to attend the Berlin Summit on Libya. | |
| Sofia | 30 January | Conte met the Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borisov. | |
| London | 4 February | Conte met the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson. | |
| Brussels | 4 February | Conte met President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and President of the European Council Charles Michel. | |
| Lisbon | 7 July | Giuseppe Conte met Prime Minister Antรณnio Costa at the Sรฃo Bento Mansion. The two leaders discussed about the socio-economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This trip was Conte's first one since the beginning of the pandemic.[14] | |
| Madrid | 8 July | Conte met Prime Minister Pedro Sรกnchez at the Palace of Moncloa. The two leaders discussed about the socio-economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[15] | |
| The Hague | 11 July | Giuseppe Conte met Prime Minister Mark Rutte. The two leaders discussed about the economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic, on which Italy and Netherlands have different positions.[16] | |
| Berlin | 13 July | Prime Minister Conte met Chancellor Angela Merkel. The two leaders discussed about the socio-economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[17] | |
| Brussels | 17โ21 July | Conte took part in the European Council to decide the EU economic response to the COVID-19 recession, which deeply affected the continent.[18] The summit was among the longest ones in history. The European leaders agreed on a new proposal which provided a budget of โฌ750 billion for the so-called Recovery Fund, composed of โฌ390 billion in grants and โฌ360 billion in loans.[19] | |
| Beirut | 8 September | Prime Minister Conte met the Italian soldiers in Lebanon and had bilateral meetings with the resigning Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, and newly appointed one, Mustapha Adib.[20] | |
| Ajaccio | 10 September | Conte participated in the EU Med Group summit, with the other six leaders, Emmanuel Macron, Pedro Sรกnchez, Antรณnio Costa, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Nicos Anastasiades and George Vella. The summit mainly concerned Turkey's unilateral activities in the Eastern Mediterranean.[21] |
Multilateral meetings
editGiuseppe Conte participated in the following summits during his prime ministership:
| Group | Year | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |||||||||
| UNGA | 24โ26 September, |
24 September, |
25 September, (videoconference) | ||||||||
| G7 | 8โ9 June, |
24โ26 August, |
10โ12 June, (cancelled) | ||||||||
| G20 | 30 November โ 1 December, |
28โ29 June, |
21โ22 November, (videoconference) | ||||||||
| NATO | 11โ12 July, |
3โ4 December, |
None | ||||||||
| MED7 | 29 January, |
10 September, | |||||||||
| 14 June, | |||||||||||
| โโ = Did not attend | |||||||||||
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- ^ Conte primo leader europeo in Etiopia per celebrare la pace con l'Eritrea, la Repubblica
- ^ Conte in Eritrea, pace stabilizzerร anche i flussi migratori, Agenzia ANSA
- ^ "Italian PM Conte visits Hafter in Libya |". 23 December 2018.
- ^ "Conte in Vietnam: rafforzeremo il partenariato economico con Hanoi" (in Italian). Rai News. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
- ^ Conte a Lisbona, governo.it
- ^ Il Presidente Conte a Madrid, governo.it
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- ^ e, Meseberg, bilaterale Merkel-Conte. Cancelliera: "Su Recovery Fund troveremo intesa", la Repubblica
- ^ I 27 leader a Bruxelles, il big match รจ Italia-Olanda, Huffington Post
- ^ EU leaders agree on โฌ1.82T budget and coronavirus recovery package, Politico Europe
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