The Minister of State in Charge of Transport Hon. Dr. Alexis NZAHABWANIMANA met the delegation from the Czech Republic on Thursday December 12, 2013, to discuss the bilateral cooperation in aviation sector.

The delegation highlighted that the Republic of Czech is delighted to cooperate with Rwanda in areas ranging from the capacity building such providing training for pilots, installation of Radar Systems to monitor and navigate the air space, modernization of airport infrastructure, surveillance systems on terminals and runways, calibration of airport instruments and providing technological assistance to aircrafts among other areas of cooperation.

According to Petr Hyl, the Head of delegation, and Advisor to the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Czech Republic appreciated the efforts and progress made by Rwanda towards positioning itself as an aviation hub in the region.

For Rwanda, “the country appreciates and highly welcomes the cooperation as is strongly developing the aviation sector” said the Minister of State Dr. Alexis NZAHABWANIMANA. As way forward, the meeting agreed that the aviation implementing entities in both countries will sit together and advise to both governments on the key areas of cooperation to start with, to speed up the implementation of the cooperation.

This visit follows the one made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic to Rwanda in October this year, 2013.