Rwanda is hosting the 3rd Session of the Joint Permanent Commission on Cooperation with Zimbabwe over the next three days.
This morning at the Kigali Convention Centre, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Clementine Mukeka, and Ambassador Pearson T. Chigiji, Chief Director of Political Affairs at Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, co-chaired the Senior Officials meeting.
In their opening remarks, both co-chairs emphasized the strong and longstanding bilateral and multilateral ties between the two countries.
Rwanda and Zimbabwe recorded remarkable achievements in the defence and security sector, where there have been exchanges and training of senior and junior officers in the army, and correctional service.
Successes have also been visible in the energy sector, with Rwanda Energy Group (REG) and ZESA completing a pilot street lighting project in Harare and energy access masterplan advisory services.
Zimbabwe dispatched teachers and lectures to Rwanda under the framework of the MoU on the exchange of educational personnel and expertise stands out as an outstanding testimony to the seriousness of the decisions in the joint commission. (End)