{"id":39121,"date":"2019-04-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/premier-ngirente-receives-qatar-deputy-prime\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T08:35:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T08:35:21","slug":"premier-ngirente-receives-qatar-deputy-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/premier-ngirente-receives-qatar-deputy-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Ngirente receives Qatar Deputy Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both countries have existing vibrant relationships in different areas. Last year in November, President Paul Kagame paid a two-day working visit in Qatar where he held talks with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.<\/p>\n<p>They discussed expanding economic cooperation. They also witnessed the signing of three agreements between Rwanda and Qatar focusing on air transport services, promoting joint investment and trade among others. <\/p>\n<p>In May 2017, Rwanda and Qatar signed diplomatic cooperation. Qatar Airways conducts flights connecting Doha and Kigali among other destinations. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hamad, 71, was among other guests who joined Rwanda to commemorate and pay homage to over 1 million innocent victims killed during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.<\/p>\n<p>Other guests at the launch of commemoration activities include Congo Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso; Niger president Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger, Djibouti President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh, Tchad president Idriss D\u00e9by Itno; Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed; Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel, The Governor of Canada Julie Payette; Nigeria Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo; African Union Commission Chairperson, Moussa Faki Mahamat among others.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28726 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abayobozi_bombi_bafashe_ifoto_y_urwibutso_nyuma_yo_kuganira-7b4c3.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente with Qatar Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Hamad Abdulaziz\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente yesterday received Qatar Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Hamad Abdulaziz who was in Rwanda to attend the 25th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi. Details of their discussions were not made public.<\/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-39121","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\/39121","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=39121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39121"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39121"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}