"I am Claude Bizimana, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Agricultural Export Development Board (NAEB). It’s a Rwandan public-commercial institution with the mission to facilitate the growth of businesses to diversify and grow agriculture and livestock commodity export revenues.

We worked with the Embassy of the Republic of Rwanda in The Hague since 2015, and we have been able to create market linkages and strengthen existing ones, participate in exhibitions for export produce in the Netherlands and EU market.

I am very delighted to celebrate with the Rwandan Embassy in The Hague on the 15th anniversary and I send my best wishes to the Rwandan community residing in The Kingdom of The Netherlands.

Over the recent five years of collaboration with the Rwandan embassy in The Hague, a lot has been achieved:

• We secured new buyers for our export produce,

• Volumes of our coffee exports increased tremendously to generate revenues worth 2 million Euros,

• Horticulture exports as well increased tremendously to generate revenues worth 8 million Euros.

• The embassy has been a great channel of business communication between Rwandan exporters and buyers in The Netherlands and

• Our collaboration helped so much the Rwandan community especially Rwandan exporters to mobilize and bring on board new investments in the agri-exports value chains,

I really believe that our partnership with the Embassy will be strengthened in a bid to attain high end markets, mobilize more investors to explore different available opportunities in the agri-export sector in Rwanda.

I also do believe that through the Embassy as our channel of business communication, opportunities for the Rwandan agri-export sector will keep expanding in the future."