{"id":342,"date":"2023-02-27T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T08:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/?page_id=342"},"modified":"2023-02-27T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T08:55:16","slug":"diplomatic-relations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/italia-e-sud-africa\/cooperazione-allo-sviluppo\/diplomatic-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomatic relations between Italy and South Africa go as far back as 1929. Since then 25 Heads of Mission have led the Embassy:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Natale Labia, Special Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary with Letters of Credence (L.C.), 31 October 1929<br \/>\n\u2022 Gabriele Chiaramonte Bordonaro, Special Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary, 8 June 1936<br \/>\n\u2022 Giuseppe Cosmelli, Special Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary, 20 October 1939<br \/>\n\u2022 Ubaldo Rochira, Political Representative, 18 March 1946<br \/>\n\u2022 Pasquale Jannelli, Special Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary, 9 October 1947<br \/>\n\u2022 Cristoforo Fracassi Ratti Mentone di Torre Rossano Special Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary, 2 January 1951<br \/>\n\u2022 Carlo Fecia di Cossano, Ambassador with L. C., 12 September 1953<br \/>\n\u2022 Francesco Sily di Sant\u2019Andrea D\u2019Ussita, Ambassador with L. C., 26 January 1956<br \/>\n\u2022 Renzo Carrobio di Carrobio, Ambassador with L. C., 29 January 1959<br \/>\n\u2022 Augusto Assettati, Ambassador with L. C., 24 July 1962<br \/>\n\u2022 Alberto Paveri Fontana di Fontana Pradosa, Ambassador with L. C., 4 January 1967<br \/>\n\u2022 Alberto Paveri Fontana di Fontana Pradosa, Ambassador, 1 August 1969<br \/>\n\u2022 Aldo Pierantoni, Ambassador with L. C., 24 January 1971<br \/>\n\u2022 Giuseppe Meschinelli, Ambassador with L. C., 20 September 1975<br \/>\n\u2022 Giulio Cesare Di Lorenzo, Ambassador with L. C., 7 March 1979<br \/>\n\u2022 Giacomo Ivancich Biaggini, Ambassador with L. C., 1 February 1982<br \/>\n\u2022 Mario Piersigilli, Ambassador with L. C., 11 December 1987<br \/>\n\u2022 Bruno Cabras, Ambassador with L. C., 21 December 1993<br \/>\n\u2022 Renato Volpini, Ambassador with L. C., 7 February 1998<br \/>\n\u2022 Valerio Augusto Astraldi, Ambassador with L. C., 9 April 2002<br \/>\n\u2022 Alessandro Cevese, Ambassador with L.C., 3 luglio 2006<br \/>\n\u2022 Elio Menzione, Ambassador with L.C., 3 settembre 2008<br \/>\n\u2022 Vincenzo Schioppa, Ambassador with L.C., 24 novembre 2011<br \/>\n\u2022 Pietro Giovanni Donnici, Ambassador with L.C., 8 December 2015<br \/>\n\u2022 Paolo Cuculi, Ambassador with L.C., 15 April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diplomatic relations between Italy and South Africa go as far back as 1929. Since then 25 Heads of Mission have led the Embassy: \u2022 Natale Labia, Special Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary with Letters of Credence (L.C.), 31 October 1929 \u2022 Gabriele Chiaramonte Bordonaro, Special Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary, 8 June 1936 \u2022 Giuseppe Cosmelli, Special [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":97,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}