{"id":36546,"date":"2017-12-19T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T11:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/un-official-hails-rwanda-contribution-to\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T11:25:12","slug":"un-official-hails-rwanda-contribution-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/un-official-hails-rwanda-contribution-to\/","title":{"rendered":"UN official hails Rwanda contribution to peacekeeping missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the meeting, the officalss exchanged ideas on the prevailing political and security situation in Central African Republic, in South Sudan and in the region. <\/p>\n<p>Lacroix expressed his appreciation and gratitude to the Government of Rwanda for its contribution to peacekeeping and commended the excellent performance of the Rwandan peacekeepers troops whenever they are on UN missions.<\/p>\n<p>The discussions also reviewed the progress of the ongoing negotiations over UN request for the Government of Rwanda to contribute more troops to MINUSCA. The additional force which is expected to be deployed to the Central African Republic by February 2018 will reinforce UN operations and address recurrent attacks against the population.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda currently maintains troops and other personnel that include a Level-Two hospital and other UN staff in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).<\/p>\n<p>Rwandan troops are specifically charged with providing security for high-ranking government officials, including the President and securing key state institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Mushikiwabo thanked Lacroix for the visit and reassured him of Rwanda\u2019s commitment to support peace in Africa and elsewhere in the world. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lacroix took up the post of UN Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations on April 1st this year, replacing Herv\u00e9 Ladsous. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23284 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ujjjn.jpg\" alt=\"Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Community, Louise Mushikiwabo with (UN) Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23283 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jkl_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23282 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jkk_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations (UN) Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, yesterday met the  Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Community, Louise Mushikiwabo, the Minister of Defence Gen. James Kabarebe and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen Patrick Nyamvumba at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kimihurura, Kigali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36546","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36546"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36546"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}