{"id":4862,"date":"2016-06-21T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T13:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&#038;web\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2017-07-15T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T14:02:07","slug":"president-kagame-in-morocco-for-two-day-official-visit-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=4862","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame in Morocco for two-day Official visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Casablanca, 20 June 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Paul Kagame has arrived in the Kingdom of Morocco for a two-day official visit at the invitation of His Majesty King Mohammed VI.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival in the North African nation, President Kagame was welcomed by the Prime Minister, Mr. Abdel-Ilah Benkiran, the Wali of the Casablanca-Settat Region, the Governor of the Nouaceur Province, elected officials and civilian and military representatives of the Nouaceur Prefecture.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the Official Welcome Ceremony on the Mechouar Esplanade in Casablanca, President Kagame was decorated by His Majesty King Mohammed VI with the Grand Collar of Wissam Al-Mohammadi, Morocco&#8217;s highest national Award of Honour.<\/p>\n<p>In observance of the holy month of Ramadan, President Kagame was hosted to an official &#8220;Iftar&#8221; hosted by His Majesty King Mohammed VI.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda&#8217;s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, said the visit aimed at strengthening the already existing cordial relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis state visit is an important opportunity to define lines of cooperation that would be beneficial for our two countries.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the visit, Kagame is also expected to meet with members of the Moroccan private sector.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries are expected to agree on a general cooperation framework, which will inform more specific cooperation agreements in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casablanca, 20 June 2016 President Paul Kagame has arrived in the Kingdom of Morocco for a two-day official visit at the invitation of His Majesty King Mohammed VI. On arrival in the North African nation, President Kagame was welcomed by the Prime Minister, Mr. Abdel-Ilah Benkiran, the Wali of the Casablanca-Settat Region, the Governor of the Nouaceur Province, elected officials and civilian and military representatives of the Nouaceur Prefecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4862","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\/4862","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/7246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}