{"id":47029,"date":"2022-11-17T06:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/amb-gashumba-presents-credentials-to-president-of-iceland\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T10:52:10","slug":"amb-gashumba-presents-credentials-to-president-of-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/amb-gashumba-presents-credentials-to-president-of-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Amb. Gashumba presents credentials to President of Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Gashumba presented credentials to the President of Iceland, Gu\u00f0ni Th. J\u00f3hannesson on Tuesday 15th November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>She will oversee Rwanda&#8217;s interests in Iceland with residence in Sweden. <\/p>\n<p>During the ceremony, the President of Iceland commended President Paul Kagame&#8217;s strong conviction towards gender equality and commitment towards better life of Rwandans. He said that it is a common vision between the two countries and &#8216;both put these visions into action&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Amb. Gashumba conveyed the greetings from President Kagame to J\u00f3hannesson and presented an overview of Rwanda\u2019s development progress and strong commitment to improve the lives of its citizens after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2022, Rwanda and Iceland signed an MoU on political consultations.<\/p>\n<p>Amb. Gashumba informed J\u00f3hannesson that Rwanda is keen on strengthening its relations with Iceland, especially through trade and investment, tourism, fishing and education, and commended Iceland\u2019s commitments in several of Rwanda\u2019s priority sectors including human rights and gender equality.<\/p>\n<p>Both J\u00f3hannesson and Amb. Gashumba pledged their commitment to further developing bilateral relations and strengthening cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>During her visit to Iceland, Dr. Gashumba held several meetings with senior officials at the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs including Ms N\u00edna Bj\u00f6rk J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, Director General, GR\u00d3 \u2013 Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainability and Societal Change; Martin Eyj\u00f3lfsson, Permanent Secretary of State, Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Mr \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0ur Bjarni Gu\u00f0j\u00f3nsson, Director, Directorate for Development Cooperation, Members of Parliament including Arnd\u00eds Anna Krist\u00ednard\u00f3ttir Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir, J\u00f3d\u00eds Sk\u00falad\u00f3ttir, Lilja Rannveig Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir as well as Dr. J\u00f3n Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45194 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/auca.jpg\" alt=\"Both J\u00f3hannesson and Amb. Gashumba pledged their commitment to further developing bilateral relations and strengthening cooperation between the two countries.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda&#8217;s ambassador to Iceland, Dr. Diane Gashumba has presented letters of credence 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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/47029","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=47029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47029"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47029"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}