{"id":55696,"date":"2025-09-21T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-hosted-to-luncheon-by-azerbaijani-counterpart\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:57:17","slug":"president-kagame-hosted-to-luncheon-by-azerbaijani-counterpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-hosted-to-luncheon-by-azerbaijani-counterpart\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame hosted to luncheon by Azerbaijani counterpart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The luncheon was attended by Rwanda\u2019s Deputy CEO of the Rwanda Development Board, Juliana Kangeli Muganza; Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Gen (Rtd) James Kabarebe; and Rwanda\u2019s Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Lt Gen (Rtd) Charles Kayonga.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the two leaders commended the bilateral ties between Rwanda and Azerbaijan and discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in key areas including the economy, trade, culture, agriculture, and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame\u2019s visit, which began on September 19, 2025, followed the signing of five bilateral agreements covering agriculture, education, satellite communication services, trade, and public service delivery. Kagame emphasised Rwanda\u2019s commitment to ensuring that the agreements achieve the expected outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>President Aliyev described Rwanda and Azerbaijan as strong partners and welcomed the progress in bilateral relations since they were formally established in 2017. <\/p>\n<p>President Kagame last visited Baku in November 2024 to attend the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-94797 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/65ad6b5663d373c2e3d6cc9fe8c67656_3635594-63121.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame, who is on a working visit to Azerbaijan, was hosted to luncheon by his counterpart, President Ilham Aliyev, on Saturday, September 20, 2025.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame, who is on a working visit to Azerbaijan, was hosted to a luncheon by his counterpart, President Ilham Aliyev, on Saturday, September 20, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000094798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55696","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":2000094798,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/65ad6b5663d373c2e3d6cc9fe8c67656_3635594-63121logo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/65ad6b5663d373c2e3d6cc9fe8c67656_3635594-63121logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/65ad6b5663d373c2e3d6cc9fe8c67656_3635594-63121logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/65ad6b5663d373c2e3d6cc9fe8c67656_3635594-63121logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/65ad6b5663d373c2e3d6cc9fe8c67656_3635594-63121logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/65ad6b5663d373c2e3d6cc9fe8c67656_3635594-63121logo.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55696","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000094798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55696"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55696"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}