Italy plans to vaccinate 10 to 15 million of its roughly 60 million citizens against COVID-19 by April 2021, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said, Trend reports citing Xinhua.

The municipalities of the Italian city of Naples, Catania, Chieti provinces, and Molise region adopted documents condemning the military aggression, ethnic cleansing, and the policy of Armenian genocide against Azerbaijan and demonstrating solidarity with the Azerbaijani people, as well as calling on to continue strengthening the Azerbaijani-Italian strategic partnership, Trend reports on Dec. 30.

Italy and Azerbaijan signed an agreement on cooperation within the energy infrastructure of Karabakh, Trend reports.

Uzbekistan and Italy discussed the establishment of cooperation between the Legislation and Parliamentary Research Institute under the Oliy Majlis (parliament in Uzbekistan) and analytical divisions of the Italian Parliament, Trend reports referring to the information service of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan.

Three municipial councils in Italy's Avellino, Catania and Isernia Provinces have officially condemned Armenia’s policy of aggression, ethnic cleansing and genocide against Azerbaijan and expressed solidarity with the Azerbaijani people, in particular, with family members of residents of Azerbaijan’s Ganja city, Barda and others regions, those killed and injured as a result of Armenia’s military aggression, Trend reported.

Head of Azerenergy OJSC Baba Rzayev met with a delegation led by Head of the Italian Ansaldo Energia company Marino Giuseppe, a source in Azerenergy told Trend.

Azerbaijan and Italy are close friends and strategic partners, Speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament Sahiba Gafarova said.

President Ilham Aliyev has said that Azerbaijan has launched new infrastructure projects to reconstruct the territories liberated from Armenia's 30-year-old occupation and companies of friendly countries will be involved in the restoration work.

Senior Italian MPs have stressed traces of violence in newly-liberated Aghdam region of Azerbaijan, which had remained under Armenian occupation for 27 years and Ganja, where dozens of civilians were killed in Armenian missile attacks.

A delegation led by Vice-President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Ettore Rosato will visit Azerbaijan’s Aghdam district on Dec. 6, the press and PR department of the Azerbaijani parliament told Trend.