{"id":42114,"date":"2020-10-08T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T10:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/stability-key-to-boosting-trade-investments-kagame\/"},"modified":"2020-10-12T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T08:17:08","slug":"stability-key-to-boosting-trade-investments-kagame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/stability-key-to-boosting-trade-investments-kagame\/","title":{"rendered":"Stability key to boosting trade, investments- Kagame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Head of state said this on Wednesday, October 07, when he was in a virtual Summit of Heads of State held via video-conference which was hosted by President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with Presidents Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o of Angola and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are obliged to meet via video conference, but the spirit of positive cooperation demonstrated by this meeting is clear. Rwanda is pleased to participate and make our contribution,\u201d said the head of state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCooperation in fighting insecurity in our region is at the core of our efforts as we allow trade and investment to thrive across borders. Stability is the catalyst for increased trade and investment. This is in the interest of each of our countries and the region as a whole,\u201d President Kagame said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has cost lives and disrupted our economies, but by working closely together to mitigate the impact, we can minimize the damage of this pandemic and build capacity to withstand future pandemics,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The DRC Presidency said the meetings in which Presidents Kagame, Museveni and Louren\u00e7o participated \u201crelates to security, political, diplomatic, health and cooperation issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The President of Burundi, Evariste Ndayishimiye was supposed to attend this summit, but he did not attend and there was no explanation given for his absence. Burundi  previously pulled out emphasizing that they prefer bilateral talks between countries<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36899 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-2638-d1471.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36900 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-3307-f2af8.jpg\" alt=\"The virtual Summit of Heads of State held via video-conference which was hosted by President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi of the DRC\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36901 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-2182-d470d.jpg\" alt=\"President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o of Angola\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36902 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-3048-14ca2.jpg\" alt=\"President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has said that the increased cooperation between countries in tackling the region&#8217;s insecurity is crucial in boosting cross-border trade and investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42114","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42114"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42114"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}