{"id":15800,"date":"2020-12-09T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/197.243.16.164\/revamp\/?p=15800"},"modified":"2021-01-12T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T10:11:55","slug":"anti-corruption-excellence-awards-remarks-by-president-kagame-tunis-9-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=15800","title":{"rendered":"ANTI-CORRUPTION EXCELLENCE AWARDS | Remarks by President Kagame | Tunis, 9 December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Your Highness, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar<\/li><li>Senior Officials<\/li><li>Award Nominees<\/li><li>Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Good afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am honoured to join you for the 5<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani International Anti-Corruption Excellence Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I commend His Highness the Amir, as well as the valuable partnership with the United Nations, which makes these awards possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I congratulate all the awardees, for your unique and determined efforts to expose and eliminate corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fight against corruption is a global objective that requires all of us to work together, to improve our societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transparency and accountability allow us to use our national resources effectively, for the well-being of our citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Combatting corruption may have a political cost, but the price of not uprooting it is much higher, in particular for the most vulnerable members of our societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kigali remains the proud home of the iconic anti-corruption sculpture, unveiled at last year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We continue to be a committed partner in this struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, I thank His Highness the Amir for his exemplary leadership on this crucial issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thank you all, and wish you a lovely ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Highness, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar Senior Officials Award Nominees Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen Good afternoon. I am honoured to join you for the 5th edition of the Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani International Anti-Corruption Excellence Awards. I commend His Highness the Amir, as well as the valuable partnership with the United Nations, which makes these awards possible. I congratulate all the awardees, for your unique and determined efforts to expose and eliminate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15800","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\/15800","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=15800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15802,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15800\/revisions\/15802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}