{"id":40083,"date":"2019-09-25T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T13:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-welcomes-commonwealth-family-to-kigali\/"},"modified":"2019-09-28T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T10:38:07","slug":"kagame-welcomes-commonwealth-family-to-kigali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-welcomes-commonwealth-family-to-kigali\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame welcomes Commonwealth family to Kigali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame and Secretary-General Patricia Scotland yesterday evening announced that CHOGM 2020 will be held at the Kigali Convention Centre during the week starting 22 June. <\/p>\n<p>Leaders from all 53 Commonwealth countries are expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame and Scotland made the statement in New York, United States of America.<br \/>\nThe theme for the meeting is \u2018Delivering A Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming\u2019. Five sub-themes have been identified for discussion: Governance and Rule of Law, ICT, and Innovation, Youth, Environment, and Trade.<\/p>\n<p>Building on progress since CHOGM 2018 in London, leaders are expected to discuss ways the contemporary Commonwealth can transform societies, in accordance with Commonwealth Charter values of democracy, multilateralism, sustainable development, and empowerment of women and youth.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame said: \u201cIt will be a great pleasure to welcome leaders of the Commonwealth when they gather in Kigali. We will work hard to make everybody feel Rwanda is an extension of their home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe distinctive aspect of CHOGM 2020 will be connectivity including what young people can do with technology to create vibrant societies and develop our economies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Secretary-General Scotland stated: \u201cI think the youth demographic we have now is a real opportunity.  It\u2019s going to be a very exciting chance for us to enable our young people to develop and deploy the skills they need so they can fulfill their potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy connecting, innovating and transforming, the Commonwealth opens up scope for mobilizing the talent of people of all ages and backgrounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As well as the meeting of heads of government, the week will include a meeting of foreign ministers and forums to engage young people, civil society, women and the business community.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda joined the Commonwealth in November 2009, becoming its 54th member.<br \/>\nThe previous Commonwealth meeting took place in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3gr375BvxAE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32414 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7-1219-af93c.jpg\" alt=\"The President K agame attending the previous Commonwealth meeting that took place in the United Kingdom.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32415 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6-1391-e3a01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32416 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/chogm.png\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame and Secretary-General Patricia Scotland announced that CHOGM 2020 will be held at the Kigali Convention Centre.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) has been officially launched in a video message from the President of Rwanda and the Commonwealth Secretary-General.<\/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-40083","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\/40083","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=40083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40083"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40083"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}