President Paul Kagame yesterday appointed
Rwanda’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador
Eugène-Richard Gasana, as State Minister in Charge of Cooperation.
The portfolio has not been in existence. Ambassador
Gasana will however remain the country’s envoy to the UN, Prime
Minister Pierre Damien Habumuremyi said in a statement last evening.
Gasana,
one of the country’s longest serving diplomats, becomes the first
Rwandan envoy to the UN to serve as cabinet minister at the same time.
Asked
about this unprecedented appointment, Foreign Affairs minister Louise
Mushikiwabo said Gasana’s promotion gives him the powers to represent
the country at the United Nations in matters that require ministerial
presence.
“For purposes of the United Nations Security Council
and Rwanda’s Non-Permanent seat over the next two years, it makes it
easy to have a Permanent Representative with Cabinet rank, so that for
matters that require ministerial presence, the Permanent Representative
has the right rank credentials,” she told The New Times.
Mushikiwabo
added, “It is also a fact that Ambassador Gasana, who has been in
diplomatic service for 18 years now, has performed very well in his
duties, so it’s also a well deserved promotion. We congratulate him.”
On
January 1, Rwanda will begin its two-year term on the United Nations
Security Council, a seat it won on October 18, replacing South Africa.
The
country last occupied a similar position in 1993-94 during which period
it experienced the Genocide against the Tutsi which claimed more than a
million people.
Gasana has risen through the ranks in diplomatic
circles having served as Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy Rwanda in
Bonn, Germany (1994 to 1995), and later (1996 and 1997) in the same
position in Bern, Switzerland.
He was later appointed Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federal Republic of Germany,
with concurrent accreditation to Austria, Bulgaria, Russian Federation,
Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Romania.
Gasana also
served as Permanent Representative for Rwanda to the UNO in Geneva and
other International Organisations, including World Trade Organisation,
WIPO, UNHCR, ITU, WHO.
In July 2009, he was appointed Permanent Representative to the United Nations, a post he holds to date.
In
January 2011, Ambassador Gasana was elected Chairman of the
Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), a UN platform that seeks to promote
sustainable peace in post-conflict countries.
Born on July 2,
1962 in Bujumbura, Burundi, the father of three studied banking and
business studies at the University of Applied Sciences of Cologne, and
an Executive M.B.A. course at the European Business School in
Maastricht, the Netherlands.
The newly appointed minister is scheduled to be sworn in today
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