inister of Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe received a delegation of Ukrainian Members of Parliament(MPs) composed of Oleksandr Merezhko, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Inter-parliamentary Relations, and Zhan Beleniuk, Leader of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Rwanda, who are in Kigali for a two-day visit.
“I received a delegation of Ukrainian MPs, led by Oleksandr Merezhko, Chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Relations. The delegation included Hon. Zhan Beleniuk, who was born from a Rwandan father and is a former Olympic champion of Greco-Roman wrestling. He is the Leader of the Parliamentary Friendship Group. We discussed bilateral relations, the situation in our respective regions and parliamentary diplomacy’, Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on X.
Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe and Ukrainian Members of Parliament discussed ways to further strengthen Rwanda–Ukraine relations and cooperation in areas of mutual interest.
Rwanda and Ukraine are strengthening diplomatic ties, marked by a mutual visa exemption agreement for diplomatic passport holders signed at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2026.
Ukraine opened its embassy in Kigali in late 2023, followed by the appointment of Viacheslav Yatsyuk as Ukraine’s first resident Ambassador to Rwanda in early 2025.
Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba visited Rwanda in May 2023, and subsequent high-level talks have continued between Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe. (End)