In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

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

The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible.

Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.

Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as nations have shaped a fierce independence that we will not relinquish.

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

Rwanda has its own problems and never sought to blame others or cause others trouble. I advise Burundi to do the same.