Kigali: Government of Rwanda said Monday it was restoring relations with Germany after a diplomatic spat between the two countries over Berlin's arrest of a top Rwandan official for complicity in the 1994 genocide.

A foreign ministry statement said the two countries had "agreed to work together to iron out the matters disagreed upon" and would reappoint ambassadors to their respective capitals.

Acting on a warrant from a French anti-terrorism judge, police arrested Rose Kabuye, President Paul Kagame's head of protocol, during a visit to Germany in November and transferred her to custody in France.

She was charged with "complicity in murder in relation to terrorism".

Kabuye's arrest drew a furious reaction from Kigali, which recalled its ambassador to Germany, Eugene Gasana, and expelled Germany's ambassador Christian Clages.

"Germany and Rwanda share a long history of friendly relations. In the mutual interest of both countries and their people, they want to look forward and have agreed to work together to iron out matters disagreed upon," the foreign ministry statement said.

"Following this, in a visible sign of resolve, Germany and Rwanda have agreed to post to eatch others' capitals new heads of respective diplomatic missions in the near future."

Kabuye, 47, is the first of nine close Kagame aides to be arrested on 2006 warrants by French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere on suspicion of being behind the downing of a plane carrying Rwanda's former president Juvenal Habyarimana.

His death was widely seen as the spark that set off the genocide.

Rwanda accuses Paris and its allies of deploying more efforts to persecute the genocide's survivors than to hunt its perpetrators.

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