(ANSA) – QUITO, AUGUST 03 – The special envoy of the Italian government to promote the candidacy of Rome as the seat of Expo 2030 in Latin America, Donato di Santo, held a dense agenda of meetings on Monday and yesterday in Ecuador, promoted and coordinated by the Italian Embassy in Quito.
It was the first leg of a tour that will see Di Santo engaged from today in Panama, and subsequently in Colombia and the Dominican Republic. By mid-May, the special envoy had already been to Mexico and Honduras.
In recent weeks, the Ecuadorian government has expressed support for Riyadh’s Saudi candidacy. For this reason, in addition to dialoguing with government representatives, Di Santo had – reads a press release – “an intense dialogue with Ecuadorian economic and civil society representatives historically linked to Italy with the aim of generating the conditions for a rethinking” .
For the meetings with the government, the envoy and the ambassador of Italy, Caterina Bertolini, were received at the Foreign Ministry by the Deputy Minister Juan Diego Stacey and the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs, Diego Morejon.
Subsequently they spoke with the Undersecretary for Export Promotion of the Ministry of Production, Desirée Byrne.
They also met with Eduardo Egas president of CORPEI, a public-private agency for the promotion of exports, and with the leaders of the Ecuador-Italy binational chamber (CBEI): the president José Luis Iturralde, the vice president Munir Abedrabbo, and the general manager , Victor Jurado. The Italian delegation then held a meeting with the deputy John Vinueza, and a lunch with the Apostolic Nuncio in Ecuador.
On the evening of August 1, Ambassador Bertolini “invited a large group of exponents from the world of politics, economics, business, academia, and civil society into residence”.
Di Santo explained to them the contents of the Italian proposal for Rome as the venue for Expo 2030, subsequently answering their questions and observations, and finding “strong support for the Italian candidacy”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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