Luanda 21 August 2019 - President Kagame on Wednesday joined President João Lourenço of Angola, President Yoweli Museveni of Uganda and President Felix Tshisekedi of DR Congo for the second Quadripartite Summit in Luanda, Angola. The summit was concluded with the signing of an MoU committing to regional cooperation and security, witnessed by President Sassou Nguesso of The Republic of Congo.

Speaking at a joint press conference after the signing, President Kagame reiterated the need to have free movement of people and goods across the region and called for fully implementation of all the provisions within the MoU. 

“When you have an open border, you have goods and people. When you create a problem for people to move across the border from one side to another, then you have closed the border to people and goods.  The MoU addresses all these matters very clearly and I don’t think we should be picking and choosing what we implement and what we don’t. If there are difficulties going on by trade not going on across the border and there are also problems when people can’t cross the border, when you have people who get arrested when they cross the border, that affects the movement of people, of goods and trade. We are going to address all these problems. By doing that indiscriminately, we will get where we want to be” President Kagame said.

President Kagame attended the first quadripartite summit on regional security and cooperation in Luanda, on 12 July 2019.  The summit stressed the importance of permanent, frank, open multilateral and bilateral dialogue for the consolidation of peace and security in the region and as a premise for economic integration.

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