{"id":14059,"date":"2019-01-08T15:09:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/?p=14059"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:09:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:09:45","slug":"president-kagames-statement-at-joint-press-conference-with-japan-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=14059","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame\u2019s Statement at joint Press Conference with Japan Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tokyo, 8 January 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellency, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe<\/li>\n<li>Senior Officials<\/li>\n<li>Members of the media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a pleasure to be back in Japan. I thank you, Mr Prime Minister, for the invitation, and your Government\u2019s hospitality.<\/li>\n<li>I bring warm greetings, and best wishes from the people of Rwanda to the people of Japan.<\/li>\n<li>[<em>Akemash\u2019te omedetou gozaimass\u2019]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Prime Minister and I, have had productive discussions on a range of issues of interest to our two countries, as well as pertinent global matters.<\/li>\n<li>Rwanda appreciates the friendship and cooperation we enjoy with Japan.<\/li>\n<li>Indeed, our visit is an opportunity to learn more from each other, and further strengthen our strong bilateral ties, development cooperation and increase trade and investment between Rwanda and Japan.<\/li>\n<li>In this respect, I am accompanied by a delegation of business people from Rwanda.<\/li>\n<li>We look forward to the business forum taking place tomorrow, and the roadshow to introduce Kigali Innovation City, one of Rwanda\u2019s flagship projects.<\/li>\n<li>Japan is also a good partner for Africa. We look forward to deepening our mutually beneficial cooperation in many areas, during the upcoming TICAD Summit in Yokohama.<\/li>\n<li>In closing, let me say that I am very pleased to be here in Tokyo, which marks our first visit abroad this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, 8 January 2019 \u00a0 Excellency, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Senior Officials Members of the media &nbsp; It is a pleasure to be back in Japan. I thank you, Mr Prime Minister, for the invitation, and your Government\u2019s hospitality. I bring warm greetings, and best wishes from the people of Rwanda to the people of Japan. [Akemash\u2019te omedetou gozaimass\u2019] The Prime Minister and I, have had productive discussions on a range of issues of interest to our two countries, as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14059","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\/14059","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=14059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14061,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059\/revisions\/14061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}