{"id":187,"date":"2011-05-13T12:15:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/czech-republic-minister-calls-for-closer-ties\/"},"modified":"2011-05-13T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T12:13:06","slug":"czech-republic-minister-calls-for-closer-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/czech-republic-minister-calls-for-closer-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech Republic minister calls for closer ties with Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Czech Republic Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tomas Dub yesterday held discussions with Defense Minister Gen. James <span data-scaytid=\"1\" data-scayt_word=\"Kabarebe\">Kabarebe<\/span> about strengthening defense ties between his country and Rwanda.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the recent months, we signed a memorandum of understanding on <span data-scaytid=\"7\" data-scayt_word=\"defence\">defence<\/span> cooperation\u201d Dub said after the meeting. \u201cLeaving aside the <span data-scaytid=\"20\" data-scayt_word=\"MoU\">MoU<\/span> signed recently, the two countries can exchange a lot of fighting techniques,\u201d Dub said.<\/p>\n<p>He however noted that the pact between the two countries is not fully implemented hence the continuous visits and discussions on how to strengthen defense ties between Rwanda and Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like my visit to simply focus on continuing our cooperation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span data-scaytid=\"5\" data-scayt_word=\"Defence\">Defence<\/span> and military Spokesperson, Lt. Col. Jill <span data-scaytid=\"6\" data-scayt_word=\"Rutaremara\">Rutaremara<\/span>, told reporters that Dub\u2019s visit at the ministry aimed at looking into how the Rwanda-Czech <span data-scaytid=\"3\" data-scayt_word=\"defence\">defence<\/span> pact can be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Rwanda could learn a lot from the Czechs mainly in fighting techniques, particularly through its air force.<\/p>\n<p>Dub later invited the defense and foreign affairs ministers to the Czech Republic to pick out what Rwanda could learn from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Czech Republic Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tomas Dub yesterday held discussions with Defense Minister Gen. James Kabarebe about strengthening defense ties between his country and Rwanda. \u201cIn the recent months, we signed a memorandum of understanding on defence cooperation\u201d Dub said after the meeting. \u201cLeaving aside the MoU signed recently, the two countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[278],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-joram-muhoozi"],"bylines":[{"id":278,"name":"Joram Muhoozi","slug":"joram-muhoozi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":278,"name":"Joram Muhoozi","slug":"joram-muhoozi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}