{"id":1514,"date":"2013-10-21T07:02:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T05:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2013\/10\/missione-militare-2\/"},"modified":"2013-10-21T07:02:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T05:02:38","slug":"missione-militare-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2013\/10\/missione-militare-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ITALIAN MILITARY MISSION CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF COLLABORATION WITH MALTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>From the 4th to the 6th of October 2013,\u00a0 the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Missione Italiana di Collaborazione nel Campo della Difesa (MICCD) took place at the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Malta. The ceremony was attended by the Ambassador of Italy to Malta Giovanni Umberto De Vito, the Commander of the Mission, Col. Luca Mariz, the Commander of the Armed Forces of Malta, Brigadier Martin Xuereb,and by numerous representatives of institutions, the Maltese military Authorities, and the Diplomatic Corps. Rear Admiral Edoardo Compiani represented the Stato Maggiore della Difesa, who, the following day, took part in an important ceremony of an exchange of commemorative plaques at Luqa Barracks.<BR><BR>Over the years, the Italian Mission has developed\u00a0 and adapted to the times, changing the staff and the remit of the Mission to cooperate with Malta\u00a0 in a more efficient manner, providing training for hundreds of soldiers in order to improve the ability of response to common challenges.\u00a0 <BR><BR>More recently, the Mission\u2019s ability of intervention and transport by helicopter\u00a0 offered an indispensable contribution to the Armed Forces of Malta in the rescue operations at sea\u00a0 enabling\u00a0 the AFM to save more than 400 persons. <BR><BR>The Italian-Maltese collaboration in the field of Defence represents a model also for dialogue with other Mediterranean Countries, in particular in the format 5 + 5. <BR><BR><BR><IMG alt=\"Italian Military Mission\" src=\"\/resource\/2013\/10\/70916_f_amb6108.jpg\" border=\"0\"><BR><BR><BR><BR><IMG style=\"WIDTH: 736px; HEIGHT: 494px\" height=\"537\" alt=\"Italian Military Mission\" src=\"\/resource\/2013\/10\/70917_f_amb6103.jpg\" width=\"800\" border=\"0\"><BR><BR><BR><IMG style=\"WIDTH: 742px; HEIGHT: 466px\" height=\"560\" alt=\"Italian Military Mission\" src=\"\/resource\/2013\/10\/70918_f_amb6122.jpg\" width=\"867\" border=\"0\"><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the 4th to the 6th of October 2013,\u00a0 the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Missione Italiana di Collaborazione nel Campo della Difesa (MICCD) took place at the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Malta. The ceremony was attended by the Ambassador of Italy to Malta Giovanni Umberto De Vito, the Commander [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}