Nassau – The Italian Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Armando Varricchio, made an institutional visit to the capital, Nassau, where he met Prime Minister Hubert Alexander Minnis, assisted by the Minister of Finance, Marlon Johnson, and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jack Thompson. The meetings reaffirmed the excellent state of bilateral relations, which this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of their establishment, also consolidated thanks to the Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and the Caricom countries on environmental cooperation and support for respective candidacies for the Human Rights Council thanks to which Nassau and Rome will sit together in the Geneva summit for the three-year period 2019-2021. The visit reviewed the state of economic relations with Italy, with a particular look at investment opportunities in the Archipelago.
