President Kagame was accompanied by a delegation including Ambassador Valentine Rugwabiza representing Rwanda to UN.
As Rwanda entered the commemoration period on 7th April 2019, Guterres called on world population to fight against the evil wherever as the best way to honor victims of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.
“As we renew our resolve to prevent such atrocities from ever happening again, we are seeing dangerous trends of rising xenophobia, racism, and intolerance in many parts of the world. Particularly troubling is the proliferation of hate speech and incitement to violence. They are an affront to our values and threaten human rights, social stability, and peace. Wherever they occur, hate speech and incitement to violence should be identified, confronted and stopped to prevent them leading, as they have in the past, to hate crimes and genocide,” reads part of the message.
“I call on all political, religious and civil society leaders to reject hate speech and discrimination and to work vigorously to address and mitigate the root causes that undermine social cohesion and create conditions for hatred and intolerance. The capacity for evil resides in all our societies, but so, too, do the qualities of understanding, kindness, justice and reconciliation. Let us work together to build a harmonious future for all. This is the best way to honor those who lost their lives so tragically in Rwanda 25 years ago,” reads the message. 
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