Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Monday,arrived in Doha, for a three-day working visit to Qatar, an official source confirmed in Kigali.
The visit comes almost three years after the Emir of Qatar, His Highness Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, visited Rwanda in April 2019 leading a high-powered delegation of senior government officials and business executives from the Gulf state.
Reports indicate that Kagame was welcomed by different officials, including the Qatari Director of Protocol Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ibrahim Yousif Abdullah Fakhro, the Qatari Ambassador to Rwanda, Misfer Faisal Mubarak Al-Ajab Al-Shahwani, and the Ambassador of Rwanda to Qatar, François Nkulikiyimfura.
In November 2018, President Kagame held a two-day Official Visit to Qatar where he met with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The two leaders, together with their respective delegations, held bilateral talks on furthering areas of economic cooperation and witnessed the signing of bilateral agreements on Air Services, Investments as well as the MoU on Economic, Commercial, and Technical Cooperation.
Rwanda and Qatar have been working to increase cooperation in various aspects including diplomatic cooperation, political dialogue as well as different potential investments in Agriculture, technology, mining, transport, tourism.
The two nations also have pacts that cover air services business, reciprocal promotion and protection of investments and a memorandum of understanding on economic, commercial as well as technical cooperation.
Qatar and Rwanda also share ties through agreements in civil aviation, with Qatar Airways, the Gulf State’s flag carrier, operating direct flights to Rwanda since 2012.
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