{"id":38073,"date":"2018-08-24T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/armenian-premier-endorses-mushikiwabo-for-oif\/"},"modified":"2018-08-25T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T13:03:49","slug":"armenian-premier-endorses-mushikiwabo-for-oif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/armenian-premier-endorses-mushikiwabo-for-oif\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Premier endorses Mushikiwabo for OIF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda\u2019s Foreign Minister Mushikiwabo and Gabon Minister of Trade and Mines, Regis Immongault, were received by the premier on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Gabonese is the delegation behind Mushikiwabo.<\/p>\n<p>Mushikiwabo posted on her campaign Twitter account yesterday that PM Pachinyan congratulated her and delegation for \u201cthe African solidarity which, in his view, reflects the values of La Francophonie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former opposition leader Pachinyan was elected as Prime Minister in May.<\/p>\n<p>The premier was delighted to receive African leaders for his first time yesterday.<br \/>\nMushikiwabo said that their talks revolved around the future of OIF.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia will host the General Assembly of OIF on October 11-12. The assembly of Heads of State and governments will vote the organisation\u2019s General Secretary for the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>Mushikiwabo and her delegation arrived in Armenia on Wednesday on a two-day visit aimed at seeking support in the upcoming OIF elections. <\/p>\n<p>Upon their arrival on Wednesday, ministers Mushikiwabo and Immongault visited Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial where 1.5 million victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide are laid to rest. <\/p>\n<p>Mushikiwabo had also on agenda to hold talks with her Armenian counterpart Zohrab Mnatsakanyan.<\/p>\n<p>Mushikiwabo continues her campaign for the OIF top seat and was recently in Cambodia for the purpose where she held talks with her counterpart Prak Sokhonn.<br \/>\nMushikiwabo has gathered support from France and 29 African countries, making her likely to win the top OIF position for the French speaking organisation of 58-member countries. <\/p>\n<p>She is campaigning against the Canadian OIF incumbent Secretary General, Micha\u00eblle Jean. Jean won the first term in 2015.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26871 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_w_intebe_wa_armenie_nikol_pachinian_yashimye_mushikiwabo_ufite_indangagaciro_zibereye_oif-1725e.jpg\" alt=\"Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pachinyan, has endorsed Louise Mushikiwabo for the General Secretariat of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26869 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mushikiwabo_umaze_imyaka_icyenda_muri_minisiteri_y_ububanyi_n_amahanga_y_u_rwanda_ariyamamariza_kuba_umunyamabanga_w_ibihugu_bikoresha_ururimi_rw_igifaransa_oif_-52e7f.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda\u2019s Foreign Minister Mushikiwabo and Gabon Minister of Trade and Mines, Regis Immongault, were received by the premier on Thursday\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26870 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_w_intebe_wa_armenie_nikol_pachinian_yishimye_ubufatanye_buranga_abayobozi_ba_afurika-79980.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26868 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ibiganiro_bagiranye_byibanze_ku_hazaza_ha_oif-2f025.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pachinyan, has endorsed Louise Mushikiwabo for the General Secretariat of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), generally known as La Francophonie.<\/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-38073","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\/38073","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=38073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38073"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38073"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}