{"id":4497,"date":"2016-12-08T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T10:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2016-12-08T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T10:26:48","slug":"foreign-affairs-minister-ambassadors-must-attend-official-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/foreign-affairs-minister-ambassadors-must-attend-official-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs Minister: Ambassadors must attend official ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2957\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2957\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Alain-Aim\u00e9-Nyamitwe-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Alain-Aim\u00e9 Nyamitwe, Burundi Minister of Foreign Affairs \" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Alain-Aim\u00e9-Nyamitwe-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Alain-Aim\u00e9-Nyamitwe-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Alain-Aim\u00e9-Nyamitwe.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alain-Aim\u00e9 Nyamitwe, Burundi Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Burundi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alain Aim\u00e9 Nyamitwe, sent a note verbale on 5 December to diplomats accredited to Bujumbura. \u201cHeads of Diplomatic Missions invited to official ceremonies must be present physically. They may only be represented when they are outside the country and this has to be notified to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs\u201d, the note says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Normally, diplomats accredited to a country must respond to invitations from the authorities of the host country out of courtesy. If they do not participate without justification, they cause a diplomatic incident, &#8220;reveals a former Burundian ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the Minister of Foreign Affairs sent them a letter is not normal because he reminded them of what they already knew, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s practically impossible because a diplomatic leader can get sick. He\/she cannot participate physically in those ceremonies if his\/her health is poor. Ambassadors can, however, be represented by other diplomatic agents. What is important is that they inform the concerned authorities\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of non participation of diplomats accredited to Bujumbura in events organized by the ruling party was raised in a public conference called by Evariste Ndayishimiye, Secretary General of CNDD-FDD, on 2 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alain Aim\u00e9 Nyamitwe, sent a note verbale on 5 December to diplomats accredited to Bujumbura. \u201cHeads of Diplomatic Missions invited to official ceremonies must be present physically. They may only be represented when they are outside the country and this has to be notified to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[906,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4498,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions\/4498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}