{"id":19092,"date":"2025-05-29T22:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulkagame.rw\/?p=19092"},"modified":"2025-06-03T02:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:36:26","slug":"president-kagame-addresses-astana-international-forum-astana-29-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=19092","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame addresses Astana International Forum | Astana, 29 May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWhen the genocide was taking place in our country, and the rest of the world looked the other way and didn\u2019t pay attention to us, that taught us a lesson. That\u2019s when we began putting our pieces together, trying to build from within, bringing everyone to contribute, and creating that level of trust that gave us an opportunity to build institutions that were accountable to our people\u2019s needs directly.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">But this did not stop us from cooperating with the rest of the world. In fact, we received support from a number of friends and partners. However, that support would not have been helpful &#8211; would not have had an impact &#8211; if we were not standing together ourselves and doing our part from within.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In Rwanda, we have learned that external alignment, without internal stability, only deepens our vulnerabilities. Our priority is therefore focused on what delivers real and measurable benefits to our people.\u201d President Kagame | Astana International Forum.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen the genocide was taking place in our country, and the rest of the world looked the other way and didn\u2019t pay attention to us, that taught us a lesson. That\u2019s when we began putting our pieces together, trying to build from within, bringing everyone to contribute, and creating that level of trust that gave us an opportunity to build institutions that were accountable to our people\u2019s needs directly. But this did not stop us from cooperating with the rest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19092","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=19092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19094,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19092\/revisions\/19094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}