The West is anything but altruistic.

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.

Rwanda is rebuilding itself once again as one nation and that is the reason why we are making progress. Now many Rwandans are making their ends meet and others are able to do better than they have before.

Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who killed. The one million people who died here were, to a certain extent, victims of their leader, President Juvénal Habyarimana, who died in a plane crash before the genocide began. He contributed to all that. The man who took over from him was running around ordering people to kill. If this president came back and landed in my hands, I would have him arrested and tried. Unfortunately, he died a natural death.

Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.