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50 years of Italy at the United Nations
(1955 - 2005)

Silvio Berlusconi (2003)

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CAPTIONS:

1. Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, addresses the fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly (23 September 2003).

2. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (centre) meets with Silvio Berlusconi (left), Prime Minister of Italy and representing the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (24 September 2003).

3. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (centre) meets with Silvio Berlusconi (left), Prime Minister of Italy and representing the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and Franco Frattini (right), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy (24 September 2003).

4. Silvio Berlusconi (left), Prime Minister of Italy and representing the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right at the table) sign a Joint Declaration on UN-EU cooperation in crisis management. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that he is delighted to do so, and hopes that this step will lead to even closer cooperation between the two organisations in both military and civilian areas of crisis management. He is particularly pleased that the declaration outlines specific areas where practical cooperation can advance, such as training, planning, communications and "lessons learnt" (24 September 2003).

5. Starting left to right: Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Javier Solana Madariaga, High representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Franco Frattini, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy and representing the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and Igor S. Ivanov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, at today's meeting (26 September 2003).

Credits: UN Photo