So, what now?
Listen where Boulos speaks about additional agreements being signed when the Heads of State come out - mentions the minerals deal amongst others.
President Trump on Friday afternoon, following a slew of Supreme Court wins, will welcome leaders from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda ...
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successful week and in addition to that our economy is doing great setting records with the economy and a lot of
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other good things happening but this is about Congo and Rwanda and I'd like to
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ask if I might uh would you say a few words before we introduce our our guests
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thank you Mr president yes so under your leadership Mr president and the full support of Secretary Ruvio and the
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entire team at the State Department we engaged with the two parties in early
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April and within three weeks they signed the declaration of principles and now
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within about two months from that we have signed today the final this this is
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actually the final peace agreement you know many people were wondering if this is preliminary no this is the actual
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final peace agreement that they've signed today uh you've also expressed interest in inviting the heads of states
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right to the white house uh for for a signing ceremony so
there will be some other additional agreements that will be
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signed uh in addition uh to this which will become known as the Washington
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Accord with regards to the Great Lakes region that's great there are some economic why not the Trump Accord
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i'm only head I think that's great washington
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beautiful and there's an economic aspect as well that is extremely important for both countries they have also worked
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last week we finalized the regional economic integration framework which
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both countries will be signing uh at at the White House here during that ceremony and that's going to be a great
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ceremony absolutely we're going to make that a great ceremony and bring other people uh that were involved some other
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people besides the gentleman we talked about who we know has worked so hard if you think there are other people that
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are deserving let us know okay sure
and there will be some bilateral agreements
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uh we're negotiating a minerals deal with the DRC for critical minerals many
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American companies have shown interest in investing in the DRC and these we're talking about long-term investments same
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thing with Rwanda many American companies have shown interest and uh not
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only in mining but also in the midstream and downstream which will be the processing of of minerals we're also
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working and supporting the liito corridor which will have building the infrastructure uh just two days ago the
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United States signed well and supported a a project of $ 1.5 billion dollars for
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electric transmission right from Angola to the DRC and there are many other
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projects of that nature lined up so we will be under your leadership Mr president we'll be working with the two
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countries very closely and with the support of Qatar to make sure that this agreement is implemented and a lot of
