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Chairmanship

NORTH MACEDONIA
JUNE 2025
MAY 2026

WELCOME BY THE
SECRETARY GENERAL

Amb. Giovanni Castellaneta is the Secretary General of the Adriatic and Ionian Initiative, he was appointed to such position by the AII Ministers of Foreign Affairs gathered in the Adriatic and Ionian Council in Ioannina (11 May 2017) under the Hellenic Chairmanship.