{"id":42392,"date":"2020-12-09T10:18:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T10:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-finland-sign-mou-on-political-consultations-with-finland\/"},"modified":"2020-12-09T10:18:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T10:18:45","slug":"rwanda-finland-sign-mou-on-political-consultations-with-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-finland-sign-mou-on-political-consultations-with-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, Finland sign MoU on political consultations with Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They discussed areas of common interests and ways to increase multilateral cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Biruta said that the MoU is expected to boost cooperation and pave the way for further agreements between institutions from both countries.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have signed basic Memorandum of Understanding enabling cooperation between both countries.  It is a broad MoU introducing more agreements in different areas,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>He explained that discussions revolved around seeking how to engage different institutions into cooperation in the areas of climate change resilience, mining and education.  <\/p>\n<p>In the area of environment preservation, Dr Biruta revealed that both countries plan to cooperate on helping factories to find alternatives for plastic bags, mining and vocational education. <\/p>\n<p>Kai Sauer is expected to meet with other officials from different institutions including Rwanda Development Board (RDB), mining sector and environment management authority.  <\/p>\n<p>Since 2017 until 2019, trade between Rwanda and Finland increased by 21% from US$12.8 million to US$12.8 million. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37348 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/biruta.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Vincent Biruta  and the Vice Minister for Political Affairs of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland after signing the MoU..\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Vincent Biruta has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on political consultations with Kai Sauer, the Vice Minister for Political Affairs of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. }<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42392","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\/42392","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=42392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42392"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42392"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}