{"id":213537,"date":"2010-01-22T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1051583"},"modified":"2010-01-22T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:12:07","slug":"sarkozy-to-visit-rwanda-as-france-relations-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/213537","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy to visit Rwanda as France relations improve"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sarkozy to visit Rwanda as France relations improve<\/font><\/b>:bash:<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\tBernard Kouchner at a memorial in Kigali (January 2010)
\nFrence’s foreign minister visited Kigali shortly after ties were restored<\/p>\n

Nicolas Sarkozy will travel to Rwanda next month to pay the first visit by a French president to Kigali since the 1994 genocide, Rwandan officials say.<\/p>\n

Rwanda’s foreign ministry made the announcement after the new French ambassador presented his credentials.<\/p>\n

The states severed ties in 2006 after a French judge said President Paul Kagame helped spark the genocide, while Rwanda accused France of arming Hutu militias.<\/p>\n

In just 100 days, some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered.<\/p>\n

‘Common history’<\/b>:bash:<\/p>\n

Rwanda and France agreed to restore relations in November, three years after investigative judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere accused nine Tutsi officials of being behind the murder of President Juvenal Habyaremana.<\/p>\n

The shooting down of his plane on 6 April 1994 triggered the mass killings of minority Tutsis by extremist Hutu militias.<\/p>\n

\nThe Tutsi-led government of Mr Kagame had already accused France of backing and arming groups held responsible.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, a Rwandan government enquiry concluded that Hutu extremists within Habyaremana’s own inner circle had planned his assassination months beforehand and that France was not involved.<\/p>\n

However, it noted that French military officials stationed in Rwanda as part of a military agreement with the government had access to the plane wreckage.<\/p>\n

The enquiry said French officials had disappeared with the aircraft’s flight recorder and debris from the missiles fired at it.<\/p>\n

During a recent visit by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to Kigali, his Rwandan counterpart said the two countries had to move forward together.<\/p>\n

"We have a common history. We have had difficulties. We are ready to discuss them and move on," Louise Mushikiwabo said.<\/b>:bash::nuts:<\/p>\n

The resumption of ties came on the same weekend as Rwanda was admitted to the Commonwealth, an association of mainly former British colonies<\/b>.<\/p>\n

In 2008, the government decided all education would be taught in English instead of French.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8473835.stm<\/a><\/p>\n

\nThis is absolutely ridiculous, why bring Rwanda back into the boat???<\/p>\n

If they want to teach English, so much the better for them, one leaves the boat and more money and attention is there for the rest.<\/p>\n

If I had to advise the French government, I would tell them to cut all <\/u><\/b>ties with Africa (apart South Africa and Nigeria) and in particular with all their former colonies except four of them and concentrate their attention solely upon 4 or maximum 6 countries in SS Africa…and work with the people very very closely.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Rwanda was n-e-v-e-r a former French colony, it was held by the German and Belgians. Hence, it should be discarded for good.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarkozy to visit Rwanda as France relations improve:bash: Quote: Bernard Kouchner at a memorial in Kigali (January 2010) Frence’s foreign minister visited Kigali shortly after ties were restored Nicolas Sarkozy will travel to Rwanda next month to pay the first visit by a French president to Kigali since the 1994 genocide, Rwandan officials say. Rwanda’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}