{"id":43059,"date":"2021-03-11T14:35:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/commonwealth-secretary-general-visits-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2021-03-11T14:35:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:35:24","slug":"commonwealth-secretary-general-visits-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/commonwealth-secretary-general-visits-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Secretary General visits Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MINAFETT), has revealed via Twitter handle that their discussions revolved around preparations of the 26th   Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Kigali in June 2021.  <\/p>\n<p>They also discussed global matters including COVID-19 pandemic and Climate Change Action.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Vincent Biruta meets with Commonwealth Secretary General, Patricia Scotland who is in Rwanda for a 3-day visit to discuss CHOGM 2021 preparations as well as other issues of global interest including COVID19 and Climate Action,\u201d reads MINAFETT\u2019s tweet. <\/p>\n<p>After holding discussions, Scotland said she is delighted to be back in Rwanda.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonoured to be back in Rwanda. This morning, I received an update on Rwanda&#8217;s preparedness to host CHOGM 2021 later this year from Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Vincent Biruta and his team,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Scotland comes to Rwanda, few days after the visit by the delegation of Commonwealth envoys who commended Rwanda\u2019s progress on preparations for the upcoming CHOGM.<\/p>\n<p>As the World celebrated Common Wealth Day on Monday 8th March 2021, Minister Biruta reiterated Rwanda\u2019s readiness to host the upcoming CHOGM and invited guests to the meeting expected to discuss issues of global concern.<\/p>\n<p>CHOGM was to take place last year but it has been postponed to June 2021 because COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38049 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/patricia_scotland_ibumoso_ubwo_yakirwaga_na_minisitiri_biruta_kuri_uyu_wa_kane.jpg\" alt=\"Minister Biruta (right) has received Commonwealth Secretary General, Patricia Scotland who is in Rwanda for three-day visit.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38052 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ewl8fcxxyaem6826-4e57d.jpg\" alt=\"MINAFETT team updated Patricia Scotland on preparations of the upcoming CHOGM.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38051 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ewl8fcbxaamq68f5-8ee1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38050 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/patricia_scotland_na_dr_biruta_baganiriye_ku_ngingo_zitandukanye_z_ibibazo_byugarije_isi.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Vincent Biruta has today received Commonwealth Secretary General, Patricia Scotland who has arrived in Rwanda for three-day working visit.  } <\/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-43059","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\/43059","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=43059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43059"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43059"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}