Italy is present in the United States with an extensive diplomatic-consular network of 1 Embassy, 9 Consulates, 5 Cultural Institutes and many Honorary Consulates). There is a sizeable community of Italian origin that counts 17.7 million citizens. 2023 marks 162nd anniversary of our diplomatic relations with the US.
The Foreign Ministry promotes the strengthening of the already strong partnership with the United States, deeply rooted in a shared framework of democratic principles, with the common goal of jointly addressing global challenges, supporting multilateralism and the international order based on the rule of law, and ensuring transatlantic prosperity and security, also through the membership of NATO. Italy cooperates with the United States in many multilateral organisations and forums, first and foremost the United Nations and the G7, and also contributes to the framework of the European Union’s bilateral cooperation relaunched by the EU-US Transatlantic Agendas.
The Italy-US Strategic Dialogue on the Mediterranean was launched in 2018, allowing for a regular dialogue on the main dossiers pertaining to the region. On February 25, 2022, the third plenary meeting of this exercise was held in Washington.
During the course of the year, wide-ranging consultations between officials at the highest level will take place alongside the bilateral talks of government representatives with both countries. Furthermore, December 2022 saw the second Summit for Democracy launched by President Biden, to which Italy will actively contribute with a framework of commitments to defend democracy on a national and global scale.