{"id":36759,"date":"2018-01-11T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T10:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/amb-ngarambe-elected-un-human-rights-council-vice\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T11:04:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T11:04:42","slug":"amb-ngarambe-elected-un-human-rights-council-vice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/amb-ngarambe-elected-un-human-rights-council-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"Amb. Ngarambe elected UN Human Rights Council vice-president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was elected to the position following African Countries\u2019 request to be represented by Rwanda to the council committee.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected yesterday replacing an Egyptian. He will serve a one year mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IGIHE yesterday, Amb. Ngarambe said that the recognition indicates the positioning of Rwanda on the international level. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe have always been saying how these so called human rights organisations have other intentions in reporting falsehoods on Rwanda including on Human Rights of which reports have no truth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cSo, when they see how a person from the country they have been criticizing is elected to represent other countries on this council, they should note that such a country has a history and achievements that make other Africans believe in us,\u201d Ngarambe explained. <\/p>\n<p>He reminded that recently, President Paul Kagame was elected the African Person of the year, which coincided with taking over the stewardship of African Union Commission at the end of this January.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cHuman Rights and other organization criticizing Rwanda have no reason to do so, they should rethink their criticism, based on how Rwanda\u2019s leaders are rated by other African leaders, on our history and self-explanatory activities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23706 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ngarambe.jpg\" alt=\"Amb. Dr. Francois Xavier Ngarambe\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda&#8217;s Ambassador to Switzerland Dr Francois Xavier Ngarambe who is also the Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations (Vienna) has been elected the vice-president of United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council to represent Africa.<\/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":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/36759","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=36759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36759"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36759"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}