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Thu 02 Feb 2010Sarkozy visit to Rwanda a milestone in relations
ANALYSIS: France will today try to revitalise relations with Rwanda, damaged by the genocide there 16 years ago
IT MAY be little more than a fleeting three-hour stopover pressed into a busy schedule, but when Nicolas Sarkozy steps off his plane in Kigali this afternoon, the occasion will be freighted with symbolic resonance. With his arrival in the Rwandan capital, where he is due to meet President Paul Kagame, Sarkozy will become the first French president to visit the country since the genocide of 1994, a significant step in the fragile and tortuous rapprochement between the two countries.
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