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Kagame receives ROC envoy

[DRC] Kinshasa city. March 2005.
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un quart des personnes atteintes par le bacille tuberculeux vit à Kinshasa, une mégapole qui affiche un taux d’infection au VIH/SIDA d’environ six à huit pour cent
President Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo (ROC) expressed the desire to strengthen bilateral ties between his country and Rwanda, the Rwandan news agency (RNA) reported on Wednesday. Foreign Minister Adada Rudolphe, ROC envoy on visit to President Kagame, expressed his country’s readiness to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), to apprehend and hand over for trial Congo-Brazzaville-based Rwandans suspected of having committed genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 genocide, RNA reported.

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