President Kagame receives credentials from 14 new envoys

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00:03 It's our deep honor to be the first to be here.

00:19 The relationship is growing, but more so

00:22 it's also fueled by the strength of the personalities

00:27 of our prime minister and the president.

00:31 There are many, many areas that our two countries

00:34 have found common purpose in.

00:37 And I think through the adventures

00:42 that we had in COVID, we realized

00:45 that we were stronger together than we were apart.

00:48 What I would point out to you is that there's a road tennis

00:51 court just outside here.

00:53 And road tennis is our gift to the people of Rwanda.

00:56 It's a sport that was developed in Barbados,

01:00 and the people of Rwanda seem to have taken it on very well.

01:07 I think we still have a few things

01:08 that we can teach them competitively,

01:12 but I'm told that the Rwandans are getting very, very good.

01:15 They're a very athletic nation, so I'm

01:18 told that they're becoming very, very good at road tennis.

01:21 And we are concerned, but I think we can still take you.

01:24 We have so many areas that we are going to be cooperating on

01:29 that I think that we will have-- that our embassy,

01:31 our mission here is going to be well worth it.

01:34 And it's also high praise to the president of Rwanda

01:38 and the government of Rwanda for expressing the need

01:41 to broaden its footprint, because it is truly

01:44 becoming a global player.

01:47 It's a great pleasure to be officially ambassador

01:53 of Japan to Rwanda.

01:55 We have a very longstanding relations

02:01 of mutual confidence and friendship,

02:05 and I am committed to promote these good relations.

02:14 Talking about our economic cooperation,

02:19 we put emphasis on the education, agriculture,

02:24 and social infrastructure, like water supply

02:29 and electricity.

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03:41 Thank you very much.

03:42 It is a pleasure to be in Rwanda

03:43 at the occasions of the presentations of credentials

03:46 to His Excellency the President Kagame.

03:51 Indeed, it was an occasion to exchange our commitment

03:55 to the strengthening of the relations between our countries,

03:59 and that is the main purpose of this revigoration

04:03 of the relations.

04:04 We have been present in the last years,

04:08 and the strength of relations have had a very meaningful

04:12 development.

04:13 But there is still a lot to do in many fields,

04:17 including the economy, culture, political sphere.

04:21 So we are hopeful that we will have an occasion

04:26 to develop those relations in the next years.

04:29 I am very happy that we have a dimension that

04:34 is very much similar between Portugal and Rwanda.

04:41 And I think that we will have plenty of opportunities

04:45 to develop, most and foremost, I think, the human factor.

04:49 I think I would like to focus on education, on culture.

04:54 And with that, many things will come along, naturally,

04:56 the economic relations, the exchanges,

04:59 the facilitation of the contacts between the people.

05:02 During the past three years, the relations

05:05 between Rwanda and Finland, it has become deeper and deeper

05:09 and broader.

05:10 And this is something that I definitely

05:12 want to push forward and continue with.

05:15 We have had rounds of bilateral consultations

05:18 where we have been looking at trade issues.

05:20 We have been looking at cooperation in meteorology,

05:23 for example, and in some other sectors as well.

05:29 We have had cooperation in the World Circular Economic Forum,

05:32 which was held in this very convention center,

05:34 I believe, last December.

05:36 And Finland is going to have the next one in May.

05:40 So more generally, how to deepen the relations,

05:44 how to have more exchanges, how to have more visitors from

05:47 Rwanda to Finland, but also from Finland here to Rwanda,

05:51 is a very good and important way to identify also new sectors

05:56 where we can do work together.

05:59 So for Finland, generally, it's, let's say,

06:03 climate change issues, gender, youth.

06:08 These are something that in our foreign policy

06:10 are important questions.

06:12 And we look forward to see how to further deepen

06:15 this with Rwanda.

06:16 We're very pleased to be here.

06:17 This was a fantastic day.

06:19 Just like Rwanda, we're a little bigger than Rwanda,

06:25 have a little better income.

06:27 But we're also a developing country.

06:30 And that makes a lot of similarities

06:32 between our both countries, even though we're

06:34 in different continents.

06:36 We are Chileans.

06:38 We are very aware of that.

06:41 So we like to fortify our relationship

06:44 with other developing countries, especially in areas

06:48 where we can do it, like cooperation.

06:50 So the reason why I told the president this

06:54 is I want to reinforce the cooperation between our two

06:58 countries.

06:59 And that was going to be my main objective

07:02 while being an ambassador.

07:03 Well, we do a lot of cooperation and give scholarships

07:06 in capacity building.

07:08 We are now offering a scholarship

07:09 for five civil servants to go to Chile and study

07:14 about administrative issues.

07:16 So that's going to be our fourth in these matters.

07:19 I'm really very privileged to be the first ambassador

07:22 of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to our friendly country,

07:25 Rwanda.

07:26 And today, I had the pleasure to present my credentials

07:30 to Honorable President Kagame.

07:33 And this relation is a strategic relation

07:38 between our two countries.

07:39 It has been lifted up since the relations started

07:45 between His Majesty the King and President Kagame.

07:48 And everybody knows that President Kagame

07:51 has been to Jordan many times.

07:52 Looking forward to have His Majesty coming to Rwanda

07:55 anytime soon.

07:57 We are going to, in my capacity as an ambassador

08:01 accredited non-resident to Rwanda,

08:04 I'll be working very hard to strengthen this relation more

08:07 and more.

08:08 From deep of my heart, I wish Rwanda and the president

08:11 and the people of Rwanda all the best and a prosperous time

08:16 to come.

08:17 And Happy New Year for everyone.

08:19 First of all, I would like to say South Sudan and Rwanda

08:24 share a lot of things in common.

08:26 And it is that existing bilateral relations

08:30 that we will work on, especially in the areas of agriculture,

08:35 food security, and the economic investment opportunities

08:39 in financial sector.

08:41 And the skills transfer so that we share experiences and skills

08:46 between our two governments and two peoples.

08:50 And work within the greater East Africa community

08:54 to ensure the regional integration is a reality.

08:58 Where Rwandans travel to South Sudan feel at home,

09:02 South Sudanese coming to Rwanda feel at home.

09:05 And that's what we want to achieve.

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