Kagame is in Russia for the opening of 2018 World Cup ceremony.
According to Russia’s Office of the President, Putin said that he was pleased to welcome Kagame to Moscow.
“Our Foreign Minister has visited you recently. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries. I am very pleased that we have this opportunity to talk about the development of our relations,” reads the statement by Russia’s Office of the President, the Kremlin.
“I hope you will have an interesting and pleasant time in Moscow during the 2018 FIFA World Cup”
Kagame thanked Putin for welcoming him and for the invitation to Russia as well as participating at the FIFA World Cup.
“I want to congratulate you also on Russian Independence Day as well as the hosting of the World Cup,” the statement reads in part.
“Also I am happy that our relationship has so far lasted over 55 years. I am happy about that and look forward to strengthening our relationship further,” Kagame said.
Kagame said that Rwanda had a very good visit by the Russian Foreign Minister, Mr Lavrov.
“He came with a delegation to Kigali. We are happy about that. We want to build on that momentum for strengthening our relationship which we want to continue to take further,” he said.
He thanked Putin for the support and the cooperation by Russia to different fields that are very useful and productive to the development of Rwanda.
“These are the areas of education, training, defence cooperation as well and other areas. And we are looking forward to having the private sector work in Rwanda and look forward to hosting some of them from Russia to see the areas in which we could do investment and business,” Kagame elaborated.
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