My own experience from a decade ago taught me I cannot trust the UN. But it is a world body and we have to live with it and tolerate it. But I can't hide my feelings about its inefficiency and its not being productive.

Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

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

Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.

The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives.

There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.

We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.