Abstract
Mr. Sarkozy, who is to lay a wreath at the Genocide Memorial and hold talks with President Kagame, wishes to make this Rwandan stage a symbol of the "diplomacy of reconciliation", which he intends to carry out in Africa. "Our relationship with Rwanda should not be captive of the past, argues in the entourage of the French president. However, the unclear past has not finished weighing on the relationship between the two countries.