{"id":46057,"date":"2022-06-23T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/canada-to-open-embassy-in-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2022-06-23T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:07:23","slug":"canada-to-open-embassy-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/canada-to-open-embassy-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to open embassy in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s interests in Rwanda have been represented through Office of the High Commission based in Kiyovu of Kigali City and headed by Fran\u00e7ois Quenneville-Dumont.  <\/p>\n<p>According to Sada ElBalad English media house, the development has been confirmed by Canada\u2019s Foreign Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly following the arrival in Rwanda of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to attend Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2022 taking place in Kigali. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be opening an embassy for the first time here in Rwanda, in Kigali,\u201d Joly told reporters. \u201cAnd we\u2019ll have an ambassador also working from\u2026 Kigali.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister said that Ottawa needs more resources and tools for Rwanda because the voice of Canada \u201cneeds to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Joly, Ottawa will also appoint a new ambassador to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in a bid to invest in Canada\u2019s diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>In Kigali, Prime Minister Trudeau will take part in meetings with Commonwealth leaders and roundtable discussions on the climate economy.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to depart for Schloss Elmau, a resort in the Bavarian Alps of Germany, for the G7 leaders\u2019 summit on Saturday before heading to a NATO meeting in Madrid next week. He will also meet Pedro Sanchez, the prime minister of Spain.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42982 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-3559-faf3f.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Kigali on Wednesday evening. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42983 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fv4neafxeaesbyi-31054.jpg\" alt=\"Canada\u2019s Foreign Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly speaking to reporters in Kigali. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Government of Canada has announced plans to open an embassy in Rwanda and appoint a new ambassador with residence in Kigali to strengthen bilateral relations.} <\/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-46057","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\/46057","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=46057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46057"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46057"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}