{"id":86023,"date":"2017-01-25T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/alfano-meeting-with-the-nigerian-minister-of-state-for-petroleum-resources\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:22:58","slug":"alfano-meeting-with-the-nigerian-minister-of-state-for-petroleum-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/alfano-meeting-with-the-nigerian-minister-of-state-for-petroleum-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfano: meeting with the Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/alfano-meeting-with-the-nigerian-minister-of-state-for-petroleum-resources?lang=en\">Alfano: meeting with the Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, held a meeting today with the Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu.&#8221;We appreciate the potential of the Nigerian market and its entrepreneurship and consider Nigeria to be Italy&#39;s second biggest commercial partner in sub-Saharan Africa, one of the priority markets in 2017&#8243;, began Minister Alfano.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our excellent economic and commercial relations, which include the traditional presence of Italian companies in the oil and gas sector &#8211; continued the minister &#8211; present further opportunities for growth in other sectors, particularly agro-food and agro-industry, which is why a branch office of the Italian Trade Agency will be opening in Lagos in 2017&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting provided an opportunity&nbsp;to take stock of the political situation in the country. Minister Alfano confirmed &#8220;Italy&#39;s support for action by the international community to assist the Nigerian Government in combating terrorist activities, under the rule of law and with full respect for human rights&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO on behalf of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/b09062dccc8f3c5\/200\/70\" alt=\"Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy\"\/><br \/>Download logo<\/div>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/alfano-meeting-with-the-nigerian-minister-of-state-for-petroleum-resources?lang=en\">APO &#8211; Africa-Newsroom: latest news releases related to Africa<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfano: meeting with the Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources: The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, held a meeting today with the Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu.&#8221;We appreciate the potential of the Nigerian market and its entrepreneurship and consider Nigeria to be Italy&#39;s second biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[22980,5397,5695,11720,20664,3393,3054],"class_list":{"0":"post-86023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-alfano","8":"tag-meeting","9":"tag-minister","10":"tag-nigerian","11":"tag-petroleum","12":"tag-resources","13":"tag-state","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}