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International businessmen to promote investments in Rwanda
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AN INTERNATIONAL business delegation led by the East African Association has pledged to woo investors into Rwanda. The trade and investment mission was organised between the 6th and 9th of March, 2007, and was the second such visit it has organised. Speaking shortly after meeting President Paul Kagame at Village Urugwiro, the EAA chief, John Small, told journalists that his delegation was impressed by the country's stringent anti-corruption policies.
The EAA CEO also expressed gratitude to the cooperation they received from different cabinet ministers and other stakeholders.
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Small further said that after the EAA seminar, which is to be held in London, the EAA will convince business people to come and identify the unexploited trade and investment opportunities in Rwanda.
President Kagame expressed his appreciation of the EAA in its efforts to bring private sector business to the country. He accepted that his country still had a long way to go economically and that it had to face various challenges from the recent past.
The EAA delegation was composed of 40 executives from nine international companies, and was partly funded by the Brussels-based Council for the Development of Enterprise (CDE), an organisation which seeks to assist ACP country businesses to invest and expand within the continent and the regional representative, based in Kigali, formed part of the delegation.
Some of the companies interested in the investment opportunities in the country are already investing in Rwanda.
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