French International Cooperation Minister Charles Josselin paid his first visit to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha on Friday, saying he expected greater cooperation between Paris and the ICTR. He told the Hirondelle news agency the Tribunal was “pioneering a new international justice system”. Josselin, who is due to go on to Kigali, said he expected to meet Rwandan Vice-President Paul Kagame on Saturday. Relations between the two countries have been strained ever since France’s military ‘Operation Turquoise’ in southwest Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, which the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) says allowed many of the killers to escape to the-then Zaire. This will be the first visit to Rwanda by a French minister since the genocide.
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