The president of the Republic of Congo Brazzaville Denis Sassou N’Guesso arrived today evening at around 17:30hrs Aboard a Congo based airline ‘Trans Air Congo’ at Kigali International Airport for a 3-day official visit.
President Paul Kagame received his counterpart at the Kigali International airport.
President N’Guesso is expected to hold talks with President Kagame and host him for a state banquet scheduled tomorrow Tuesday after honouring the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi victims at Kigali
Genocide Memorial Center.
Over the past years in 1982 and 1984 the two states had signed Memorandums of Understanding but it had since not been renewed until last year when President Kagame Visited Congo Brazzaville where the two Presidents agreed on terms of strengthening ties.
President N’Guesso is scheduled to tour socio-economic sites in Kigali and the surrounding areas. The two heads of state will then hold a joint press conference on Wednesday at Urugwiro Village.
The growing relationship between Congo and Rwanda has been further facilitated by the recent launch of a twice-weekly flight from Kigali to Brazzaville by the national carrier, Rwandair.
The state visit was preceded by a meeting of the Rwanda-Congo Joint Permanent Commission, which ended today 21 November, by Foreign Affairs’ ministers of the two countries recommending the report covered by the experts during the 2-day meeting.
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