{"id":47364,"date":"2023-01-12T07:47:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T07:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/amb-nkulikiyimfura-presents-credentials-to-represent-rwanda-in-portugal\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T07:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T07:49:30","slug":"amb-nkulikiyimfura-presents-credentials-to-represent-rwanda-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/amb-nkulikiyimfura-presents-credentials-to-represent-rwanda-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Amb. Nkulikiyimfura presents credentials to represent Rwanda in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda and Portugal enjoy existing diplomatic relations dating back to 12th February 1976. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, Ant\u00f3nio Baptista Martins became the first Portuguese Ambassador in Rwanda with residence in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  <\/p>\n<p>He assumed the duties on 25th January 1997. Today, the country&#8217;s interests in Rwanda are overseen by Helena Malcata who presented credentials to President Paul Kagame on 22nd February 2019.   <\/p>\n<p>Amb. Nkurikiyimfura has been serving as Rwanda\u2019s Ambassador to France since July 2022.  <\/p>\n<p>A Rwandan seeking to travel to Portugal is required to apply for Schengen visa. A round trip to the country with KLM aircraft costs US$825.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45836 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fmodn7ix0aiboqy-dad99.jpg\" alt=\"Diplomatic relations between Rwanda and Portugal date back to 1976.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45837 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fmodnv6xeaafkfs-86374.jpg\" alt=\"Amb. Nkulikiyimfura presenting letters of credence to the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Ambassador Fran\u00e7ois Nkulikiyimfura has presented letters of credence to the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa 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-47364","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\/47364","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=47364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47364"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47364"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}