President Paul Kagame (see Box) was present as a special guest of President Museveni and his country's membership will be decided at the next summit in Trinidad and Tobago in 2009...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     This gladdened Rwandan President Paul Kagame by calling on the Congolese government and the UN Mission  the Mission des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo (Monuc)  to start military operations against the remnants of Rwanda's former army  the Forces Armées Rwandaises  and their Interahamwé militia associates  and to put their leaders on trial for genocide and other crimes against humanity...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    Rwanda became a virtual member of the Commonwealth at its 23-25 November summit in Kampala  partly due to President Yoweri Museveni's energetic support for visiting President Paul Kagame and the pair's determination to show their bilateral problems have been settled...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 48 No 20 | 
            - RWANDA
 - FRANCE
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Rwanda broke them off in November 2006  after a French judge  Jean-Louis Bruguière  issued arrest warrants against nine of President Paul Kagame's senior officials  alleging their complicity in the murder of the late Rwandan President  Juvénal Habyarimana  in April 1994 (AC Vol 47 No 24)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 48 No 18 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Seasoned Congolese and United Nations' opponents of the Kigali government suspect it is to blame  alleging that President Paul Kagame wants to stoke the eastern Congo conflict to justify sending his troops back there...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has  unusually  been invited to speak at the Commonwealth Business Forum  held in Kampala just before the CHOGM...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 48 No 13 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Paul Kagame's regime in Kigali...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    Rwandan President Paul Kagame asked on 2 May: 'What is the purpose of having [Amis] there just to sit in the sun and not do what they are expected to do  to support the people in Darfur who are suffering...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 48 No 10 | 
            - PARLIAMENTS
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     President Paul Kagame has accordingly dismissed several ministers though almost all those pushed out by parliament have been from opposition parties...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 48 No 9 | 
            - RWANDA
 - BELGIUM
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	      Belgium's lawyers will deny this  which will complicate the case led by French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière  who accuses Rwandan President Paul Kagame of being behind the attack (AC Vol 47 No 24)...