{"id":51038,"date":"2024-07-19T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-receives-outgoing-swedish-uk-envoys\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:35:31","slug":"president-kagame-receives-outgoing-swedish-uk-envoys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-receives-outgoing-swedish-uk-envoys\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame receives outgoing Swedish, UK envoys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the President revealed that Kagame met with the ambassadors on the evening of Thursday, July 18, 2024 and bed them farewell.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Rwanda and Sweden has flourished for over 20 years, primarily through cooperation in sectors such as education. <\/p>\n<p>During a ceremony on March 23, 2023, celebrating 20 years of partnership in research and other development activities through the &#8216;UR-Sweden Program&#8217;, Amb. Teague highlighted the importance of continuing this collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, British High Commissioner Omar Daair has shown keen interest in strengthening the relationship between his country and Rwanda, supporting various initiatives during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Rwanda and the UK signed the Migration and Economic Development Partnership, facilitating the transfer of migrants staying illegally in the UK to Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>This agreement, however, faced challenges following the new UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s assumption to power and it was terminated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-73084\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gsx9oaxxoaa-czs-a46ef.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame also received outgoing United Kingdom (UK) High Commissioner Omar Daair at his office. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-73082\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gsx9oa1xeaahamp-4f43d.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame hosted outgoing Swedish Ambassador Johanna Teague at Urugwiro Village.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-73083\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gsx9oaxxcaa82o_-25148.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame received United Kingdom (UK) High Commissioner Omar Daair and accompanying delegation at his office. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-73081\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gsx9oa0x0aavklx-3fb8d.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of Regional Cooperation Gen (Rtd) James Kabarebe was also at Urugwiro Village as President Kagame received outgoing ambassadors.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has received outgoing Swedish Ambassador Johanna Teague and United Kingdom (UK) High Commissioner Omar Daair at his office as they concluded their tours of duty in Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000073085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000073085,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsx9oa0x0aavklx-3fb8d.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsx9oa0x0aavklx-3fb8d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsx9oa0x0aavklx-3fb8d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsx9oa0x0aavklx-3fb8d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsx9oa0x0aavklx-3fb8d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsx9oa0x0aavklx-3fb8d.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51038","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=51038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000073085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51038"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51038"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}