{"id":45113,"date":"2022-01-12T07:45:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T07:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/amb-nduhungirehe-presents-credentials-to-represent-rwanda-in-latvia\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T07:52:01","slug":"amb-nduhungirehe-presents-credentials-to-represent-rwanda-in-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/amb-nduhungirehe-presents-credentials-to-represent-rwanda-in-latvia\/","title":{"rendered":"Amb. Nduhungirehe presents credentials to represent Rwanda in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After presenting credentials on Tuesday 11th January 2022, Amb. Nduhungirehe pledged to draw emphasis on strengthening diplomatic and economic cooperation between Rwanda and Latvia.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy focus will be to build a strong diplomatic and economic partnership between two countries, which have many things in common, despite the distance,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Amb. Nduhungirehe also represents Rwanda to countries including Netherlands, Estonia and Lithuania.  <\/p>\n<p>Schengen visa is required for a Rwandan travelling to Latvia which is valid for 90 days before expiry.<\/p>\n<p>Current figures indicate that Latvian companies have exported goods (mainly grain and lighting materials) worth 800,000 Euros to Rwanda while imports from Rwanda have not exceeded 10,000 Euros since 2016. <\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Latvia is small country situated in the Northeastern part of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>It borders with Estonia in the North, Lithuania in the South, Russia in the East, Sweden in the West and Belarus in North-west.  <\/p>\n<p>Extended on the area of 64,589 km2 with 1.9 million population, Latvia is one of major manufacturers of machinery (domestic and industrial) at a low cost compared to most Western Europe. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40596 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cre_pre.jpg\" alt=\"Amb. Nduhungirehe presenting credentials to represent Rwanda in Latvia. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40597 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cre_ple.jpg\" alt=\"Both countries reiterated commitment to deepen diplomatic and economic cooperation. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40599 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cre_tue.jpg\" alt=\"The ceremony to present credentials took place on Tuesday 11th January 2022. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40598 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cre_ndu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Ambassador Olivier Nduhungirehe has presented credentials to President Egils Levits of Latvia to represent Rwanda in the country.} <\/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-45113","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\/45113","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=45113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45113"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45113"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}