{"id":2015,"date":"2013-01-07T13:46:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T13:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&#038;web\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2017-07-17T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T12:44:40","slug":"president-kagame-receives-au-commissioner-for-peace-and-security-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=2015","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame receives AU Commissioner for peace and security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kigali, 7 January 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame today received in his office the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, Amb. Ramtane Lamamra. He is in the country to seek Rwanda\u2019s view on finding a solution to the Eastern DR Congo crisis and to discuss cooperation between Rwanda, the AU and the Peace and Security Commission, given Rwanda\u2019s new role as a non permanent member of the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Press after meeting President Kagame, Amb. Ramtane Lamamra said: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';\">\u201cWe had a very interesting discussion with the President on issues related to the crises around the continent but especially in the Great Lakes Region. The Congo problem needs a realistic approach in order to solve it. To avoid a recurrence, the Congo problem must be tackled from the root cause. This visit has given me a deeper insight into what the Congo problem really is. This issue will be thoroughly discussed during the upcoming AU Summit.\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';\">The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo said the fact that the AU Commissioner for peace and security is visiting shows that the AU is keen of finding a lasting solution to the conflict in Congo. She said that since the problems in Congo have been there for a long time, this calls for a deliberate approach to deal with the causes and not symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, 7 January 2013 President Kagame today received in his office the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, Amb. Ramtane Lamamra. He is in the country to seek Rwanda\u2019s view on finding a solution to the Eastern DR Congo crisis and to discuss cooperation between Rwanda, the AU and the Peace and Security Commission, given Rwanda\u2019s new role as a non permanent member of the UN Security Council. Speaking to the Press after meeting President Kagame, Amb. Ramtane Lamamra said:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","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\/2015","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=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9721,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/9721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}