United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived on Tuesday in Rwanda, the UN said, following a dispute with the African nation over a leaked UN report saying its troops may have committed genocide.
UN spokesman Farhan Haq said Mr. Ban flew into the Rwandan capital Kigali on the unannounced visit. He would meet later on Tuesday with Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo and would see President Paul Kagame on Wednesday, Mr. Haq said.
Ms. Mushikiwabo said last week Rwanda is considering pulling out all its troops from UN peacekeeping missions, starting with Darfur in Sudan, because of its anger over the draft report.
The report, whose publication the United Nations has delayed until Oct. 1, said in the leaked draft that Rwandan troops may have committed genocide in the 1990s against Rwandan Hutus who had been driven into neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Rwanda has described that charge as malicious and ridiculous.