{"id":37609,"date":"2018-06-01T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T09:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/speaker-holds-discussions-with-uk-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:56:00","slug":"speaker-holds-discussions-with-uk-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/speaker-holds-discussions-with-uk-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker holds discussions with UK Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both officials told the media that they also discussed about preparations of the Commonwealth Heads of States Meeting that will take place in Kigali in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Mukabalisa said that Rwanda will benefit from the meeting in terms of attracting new investors.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe are pleased to host the Commonwealth meeting, we discussed how both parliaments can cooperate along its preparations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who will attend the meeting and those who will be around facilitating the preparations will explore Rwanda\u2019s Investment Opportunities, so, this will help to market Rwanda,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Lomas said that they discussed about Rwanda\u2019s Members of Parliaments elections slated in September.<\/p>\n<p>She said that they discussed ways to explain the Commonwealth to people so that they  understand its role.<\/p>\n<p>Both officials hailed the relations between both countries which are founded on cooperation in different sectors like agriculture, education, trade and investment among others.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25572 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_w_umutwe_w_abadepite_mukabalisa_donatille_ari_kumwe_na_ambasaderi_w_u_bwongereza_mu_rwanda_jo_lomas_ndetse_n_abandi_bayobozi_mu_nteko-42036.jpg\" alt=\"Mukabalisa (Right) and Lomas (2nd right) along other officials pose for a photo yesterday in Parliament after discussions\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25571 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_w_umutwe_w_abadepite_mukabalisa_donatille_yakiriye_ambasaderi_w_u_bwongereza_mu_rwanda_jo_lomas-09010.jpg\" alt=\"Mukabalisa and Ambassador Lomas pose for a photo after discussions \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Speaker of Parliament, Donatille Mukabalisa yesterday held discussions with United Kingdom Ambassador to Rwanda, Jo Lomas which revolved around relations of both countries and cooperation between both countries\u2019 parliaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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-37609","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\/37609","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37609"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37609"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}