{"id":37254,"date":"2018-04-09T08:56:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T08:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-britain-discuss-military-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2018-04-09T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T10:30:06","slug":"rwanda-britain-discuss-military-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-britain-discuss-military-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, Britain discuss military cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lancaster said that they had a successful meeting where they discussed ways how both countries can work together in peacekeeping and training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted to be back here in Rwanda. This is my third time to visit Rwanda. The United Kingdom and Rwanda have grown long standing relationship and I am here as British defence minister  looking for how we can work together with Rwanda particularly in the areas of peacekeeping and training. It has been a very successful meeting,\u201d Lancaster said.<\/p>\n<p>The British defence Minister promised a continued partnership in training and peacekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur major focus was to see really how we can continue work together in training, how the British Army can continue to support the RDF in various training organisations also how we can work together when it comes to peacekeeping of the UN\u2026 for example we have Engineer Regiment in South Sudan and you have infantry battalions, we looked at the lessons learnt from each other\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The bilateral defence cooperation meeting was also  attended by HE Joanne Lomas the new High Commissioner to Rwanda and Non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, Rwanda Defence Force Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Patrick Nyamvumba, the Dircetor General of Policy and Strategy, Maj Gen Ferdinand Safari, the RDF Chief of operations and training, Brig Gen Chris Murari, Brigadier David Eastman MBE (Head of International Policy and Plans), Col Alasdair (Military Assistant), Lt Col Mathew Edwards (UK Defence Advisor to Rwanda).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24680 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-hon_mod_receives_brititish_mod.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Defence, General James Kabarebe receiving British Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Rt Mark Lancaster\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Defence, General James Kabarebe on Saturday received British Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Rt Mark Lancaster with who he discussed ways of deepening defence cooperation between the two countries.<\/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-37254","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\/37254","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=37254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37254"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37254"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}