2016 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, in Rome during his meeting with Italy’s brand new Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, 16/12/2016.

2016 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, in Rome during his meetings with Pope Francis, Italian president Sergio Mattarella and here with Italy’s brand new Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, at Palazzo Chigi.  Gentiloni was the first foreign leader that Santos met after winning the Nobel.  

 (Juan Manuel Santos, on the left, with Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni)

“Fight Against Corruption, Economic Growth and Italian Companies” conference in Rome, 13/12/2016.

The “Fight Against Corruption, Economic Growth and Italian Companies” conference took place in Rome.

 (U.S. Ambassador to Italy, John Phillips)

On hand for the conference was the Italian anti-corruption “tzar”, judge Raffaele Cantone and his Milan “Clean Hands” judge, Francesco Greco.  The conference was held on anti-corruption day around the world.  Present at the conference were several foreign ambassadors to Italy, including John Phillips of the U.S., as well as the Secretary-General of the FAM, Elisabetta Belloni. 

 (Italy's anti-corruption "tsar", judge Raffaele Cantone on the left with U.S. Ambassador Phillips)

(Italy's anti-corruption "tsar", judge Raffaele Cantone on the right with anti-corruption judge Francesco Greco and with the Foreign Affairs Ministry's Secretary-General, Elisabetta Belloni)

The E.U.’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Federica Mogherini, in Rome for the “Mediterranean Dialogues” conference, 1-3//12/2016

The E.U.’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Federica Mogherini, was in Rome for the “Mediterranean Dialogues” conference together with the U.N.’s Special Envoy to Syria, Steffan De Mistura as well as Italy’s former Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano and the (now) former Italian Foreign Affairs Minister, Paolo Gentiloni.

(Vali Nasr, the dean of the Paul H. Niyze School of Advanced Studies at Johns Hopkins University)

(Steffan De Mistura, the U.N.'s Special Envoy to Syria)

(Former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano)
 

(Federica Mogherini, the E.U.'s Foreign Affairs Minister)

 (Now former Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Paolo Gentiloni)

Sergey Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Affairs Minister, in Rome, December, 2016.

Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Sergey Lavrov, meets the public during the second conference on “Mediterranean Dialogues” which was held in Rome from December 1^st to 3^rd, 2016.  He's held the position since 2004.  Lavrov also met with Italy's Foreign Affairs Minister, Paolo Gentiloni.

(Sergey Lavrov on the left and Paolo Gentiloni at Villa Madama during the Italian-Russian press conference)