Rwandan, Nigerian presidents have said that all African heads of state jointly seek solution to the devastated Somalia, the horn of Africa.
The two heads of states were responding to the questions poised to them by the press in a joint press conference held at Rwandan president’s office Village Urugwiro.
“We have to come together and work together, and I think the most important thing is to keep focused on the real issues that matter to the lives of our people, our countries and our continent, there are people who single out small things that really doesn’t help,” Kagame said in a joint press briefing.
“We actually discussed all these issues that affect our countries and our continent, For example we’ve worked very closely with Nigeria on the question of Durfur, we’ve been looking at ways of coming and putting our resources together to see what we can do in Somalia or different other places,” Kagame explained.
In a more elaborated explanation, Kagame said, “It is not just about peace support operations, its about diplomacy, its about different political efforts that we can mobilize working together to see how to solve those issues, naturally those were the points of discussions as we said it is not just bilateral issues that we talked about, when we have problems in Nigeria or have problems in Rwanda it has a way of affecting in other country this is the context in which we had these discussions,”
Kagame was lauded his counterpart Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan that definitely they had to discuss the horn of Africa and other challenges affecting Africa as a continent.
The Nigerian head of state said that he was heading to Ethiopia and then to Ghana where similar discussions will be on their agenda.
When asked what Nigeria can benefit from Rwanda yet his country seems to be more developed than Rwanda, Dr Goodluck said that every country has an area it excels than her neighbor.
Goodluck pointed out that Rwanda has excelled in the areas of public health which Nigeria can learn from and areas of suppressing and resolving conflicts giving an example of Rwanda’s tremendous development post 1994 Genocide.
In an effort to farther the bilateral relationships, Goodluck said that soon a Nigerian embassy will be opened in Rwanda to ease Nigerian Visa applications to those who need to travel to his country.
The two countries also signed bilateral pact to strengthen the ongoing cooperation. Rwanda opened her embassy in Nigeria recently followed by commissioning Joseph Habineza the former Sports and Culture Minister as the first ambassador to Nigeria.
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