#Rwanda 🇷🇼 #Turkey 🇹🇷
It was a great pleasure for me to host my dear friend Paul Kagame on the occasion of the first official visit of a head of state from Rwanda to our country. 🇹🇷🇷🇼

We see today's visit as a new milestone in deepening our cooperation.

Following the mutual opening of our embassies in 2013 and 2014, our relations with Rwanda gained serious momentum.

Our trade volume, which was 1 million dollars in the early 2000s, has now approached 500 million dollars with the investments made by our companies.

In our meetings today with my valuable friend, we discussed the steps we will take to strengthen our cooperation in trade, investments, energy, education, culture, defense industry and research and development sectors.

We are advancing our relations with the African Continent within a holistic, institutional and systematic framework based on our African Partnership Policy.

Within the framework of the principle of finding African solutions to Africa's problems, we aim to contribute to the stability and development of the Continent on the basis of equal partnership and win-win.

We appreciate Rwanda's valuable contributions to establishing stability and security in East Africa and the Great Lakes Region.

We hope that the conflict with the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be resolved through peaceful means.

We wholeheartedly support direct negotiations mediated by Angola.

As Turkey, we are ready to provide all kinds of support, if both parties so desire, for the solution of this issue that will contribute to stability and peace in the Great Lakes Region.

I hope that today's meetings and the signed documents will be beneficial for our countries.
#Rwanda #Turkey