Italy appoints new ambassador to Ukraine
Italy has appointed Carlo Formosa, an experienced diplomat who previously headed the embassy in Portugal, as its new ambassador to Ukraine.
The Italian embassy noted that now Carlo Formosa will head the diplomatic mission in Ukraine.
In his comments, Formosa said that he would be proud to represent Italy and work to contribute to a just peace, the future reconstruction of Ukraine and its movement towards EU membership.
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The Italian news agency ANSA reported that Ambassador Formosa, 61, has a degree in political science and has been working for the Italian Foreign Ministry since 1992, and since that initial period, he has been involved in economic cooperation with Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, and Central Asia.
In the subsequent years of his career, he worked at the embassy in Vietnam, then in Iran, after which he spent most of his time until 2017 in various positions in the Italian Foreign Ministry.
After a short period of work in the private sector, Formosa became Ambassador to Portugal in 2020 and was appointed Ambassador to Ukraine on 1 July 2024.
Prior to that, the Italian Embassy in Ukraine was headed by Pier Francesco Zazo. Since 1 January this year, he has led a group of ambassadors from the Group of Seven countries to Kyiv to help implement reforms in connection with Italy's presidency of the G7 in 2024. Accordingly, the new Italian ambassador will take on the same role after he officially starts work.
It is worth noting that Zazzo was one of the few ambassadors who did not leave Kyiv before or immediately after the outbreak of the full-scale war.