Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame begins his three day Official Visit to Latvia with a tour of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia.
The Occupation Museum of Latvia was established in Riga in 1993. The Museum’s exhibits reflect the sufferings of the Latvian people under the totalitarian Soviet and Nazi regimes.
President Kagame viewed the Museum’s sections and signed the Book for Honorary Guests. He appreciated the role of the Museum and the Society in preserving Latvia’s historical memory.
President Kagame and his host President Edgars Rinkēvičs will tomorrow hold a closed-door meeting before addressing a joint press conference.
During the visit, a commemorative plaque dedicated to the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi will be unveiled at the National Library of Latvia. (“The Castle of Light”).
This will be the first genocide memorial erected in the Baltic States and in Eastern Europe. Latvia is a country on the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Estonia.(End)