{"id":15574,"date":"2020-09-22T15:32:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/197.243.16.164\/revamp\/?p=15574"},"modified":"2020-11-14T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:07:43","slug":"4th-memorial-ceremony-for-shimon-peres-remarks-by-president-kagame-kigali-22-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=15574","title":{"rendered":"4th Memorial Ceremony for Shimon Peres | Remarks by President Kagame | Kigali, 22 September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Dear family, friends and colleagues of the late President Shimon Peres. On behalf of the people and Government of Rwanda and my own behalf, I am pleased to join in paying tribute to an extraordinary man, a son of the State of Israel, President Shimon Peres, who was also a friend of Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Peres lived a momentous life in service to his country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We remember him for his firm commitment to peace, which he always articulated with wit and grace, despite all the challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We identify with his vision of global collaboration, in pursuit of a brighter future for all our children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today my thoughts are with the Peres family, as we recall the legacy of this statesman who touched so many hearts, through his example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would do well to remember that peace and security are the precondition for human well-being and progress in Israel and throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Shimon Peres said: \u201cPeace is not a political choice. It is a basic, historic, and moral choice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May the work of the Peres Centre for Peace and Innovation continue to keep President Peres\u2019s ideals alive in the minds of young people for generations to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear family, friends and colleagues of the late President Shimon Peres. On behalf of the people and Government of Rwanda and my own behalf, I am pleased to join in paying tribute to an extraordinary man, a son of the State of Israel, President Shimon Peres, who was also a friend of Rwanda. President Peres lived a momentous life in service to his country. We remember him for his firm commitment to peace, which he always articulated with wit and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15574","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\/15574","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15576,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15574\/revisions\/15576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}