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Diplomatic Activities
21/03/2023

Meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

On Friday, March 17, the Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Ukraine Antonio Gazzanti Pugliese di Cotrone held a working meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klimenkom.

Diplomatic Activities
Lieutenant of the Grand Master News
16/03/2023

The situation in Lebanon in talks with Prime Minister Najib Mikati

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati had talks at the Magistral Palace with the Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta, Riccardo Paternò. After the meeting, the Prime Minister was received by the Lieutenant of the Grand Master.

Diplomatic Activities
15/03/2023

Focus on Order of Malta’s main commitments at meeting with accredited diplomats

The war in Ukraine and humanitarian interventions, assistance after the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea. Not to mention regular projects such as hospitals, mobile clinics and volunteer corps. These were some of the topics discussed during the meeting between the over fifty Deputy Chiefs of Mission of the embassies accredited to the Sovereign Order of Malta and the Order’s representatives.

Latest interventions
14/03/2023

Malteser International providing aid after major fire in world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh

On Sunday 5 March a fire broke out in Bangladesh in the world’s largest refugee camp, near the city of Cox’ Bazar. Around 2,000 shelters have been destroyed and nearly 12,000 people lost their home.

Lieutenant of the Grand Master News
13/03/2023

Princess Maria Luisa of Bulgaria bestowed with the Dame Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion insigna

Fra’ John T. Dunlap has honoured Princess Maria Luisa of Bulgaria by conferring her the insigna of Dame Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion

07/03/2023

The Grand Hospitaller visits Poland and Ukraine

The Order of Malta’s Grand Hospitaller Fra' Alessandro de Franciscis’s journey started in Warsaw, Poland, where he met institutional representatives and visited some of the most significant Order of Malta initiatives to assist refugees and those displaced by the war in Ukraine.

Diplomatic Activities
03/03/2023

Address of the Grand Chancellor to the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

During the 52session of the Human Rights Council the Order of Malta’s Mission to the United Nations in Geneva will participate in the inter-active dialogues.

01/03/2023

Order of Malta inaugurates a house for displaced persons in Sambir, Ukraine

Malteser Ukraine - the Order of Malta’s Relief Corps in Ukraine - has inaugurated a house for displaced persons in Sambir, near Lviv. The structure, a former clinic, covers almost 800 square metres, has three floors and can accommodate some 100 people.

Diplomatic Activities
27/02/2023

Meeting between the Grand Chancellor and the Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister

The situation in the country and in Nagorno Karabakh and the prospects for peace, as well as the Order of Malta’s health and humanitarian programmes in Armenia, were the focus of the talks that Riccardo Paterno di Montecupo had this morning with the Armenian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paruyr Hovhannisyan.