{"id":14050,"date":"2019-01-08T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/?p=14050"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:06:13","slug":"president-kagames-remarks-at-rwanda-japan-bilateral-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=14050","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame&#8217;s remarks at Rwanda-Japan bilateral meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tokyo, 8 January 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellency Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan<\/li>\n<li>Senior Officials from Japan and Rwanda<\/li>\n<li>Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen<\/li>\n<li>Mr Prime Minister, it is a pleasure to be back in Japan, and I thank you for your invitation, and gracious hospitality.<\/li>\n<li>We are pleased to be here, to honour the excellent relationship that exists between Rwanda and Japan, and to deepen our friendship and cooperation.<\/li>\n<li>Rwanda very much appreciates the ongoing development cooperation with Japan. We have productive partnerships in many areas, including in agriculture, ICT, and infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>In particular, I wish to thank you for Japan\u2019s support to the Kigali Urban Transport Improvement Plan.<\/li>\n<li>As Rwanda\u2019s population grows and becomes more urbanized, we are keen to learn from Japan\u2019s longstanding expertise and experience in city planning and urban transport.<\/li>\n<li>I also want to thank you for Japan\u2019s contribution to Rwanda\u2019s human capacity development, through the Africa Business Education Initiative, which is benefitting young Rwandans.<\/li>\n<li>Let me also take this opportunity to express my appreciation for Japan\u2019s contribution to Africa\u2019s development through, the TICAD process.<\/li>\n<li>We look forward to building on this good collaboration during the upcoming TICAD 7 in Yokohama.<\/li>\n<li>I also want to thank you for the useful role that Japan is playing in the international community, including in peace-keeping.<\/li>\n<li>As you may know, the African Union has been undergoing institutional reforms for the last two years.<\/li>\n<li>We have achieved good progress in making African Union more fit for purpose, and enhancing the continent\u2019s engagement with the rest of the world, including with Japan.<\/li>\n<li>The African Union will continue to work with Japan and other global partners, in the reform of the UN Security Council, to make it more relevant to today\u2019s realities.<\/li>\n<li>Let me also congratulate you for the selection of Osaka Kansai as host of the 2025 World Expo.<\/li>\n<li>In conclusion, Mr Prime Minister, Rwanda remains committed to strengthening cooperation with Japan, in the bilateral as well as international arena, for the benefit of both our countries.<\/li>\n<li>I wish to invite you to visit Rwanda, at a time of your convenience.<\/li>\n<li>Once again, I thank you for hosting us, and extend my best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, 8 January 2019 Excellency Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan Senior Officials from Japan and Rwanda Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen Mr Prime Minister, it is a pleasure to be back in Japan, and I thank you for your invitation, and gracious hospitality. We are pleased to be here, to honour the excellent relationship that exists between Rwanda and Japan, and to deepen our friendship and cooperation. Rwanda very much appreciates the ongoing development cooperation with Japan. We have productive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speech","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14058,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions\/14058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}