German Chancellor Scholz and visiting Kenyan President Ruto sign migration agreement in Berlin

(13 Sep 2024)
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Berlin, Germany - 13 September 2024
1. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcoming Kenyan President William Ruto on red carpet outside Chancellery in Berlin
2. German, Kenyan and EU flags waving outside Chancellery with Reichstag in the background
3. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Musalia Mudavadi, Scholz and Ruto coming on stage to sign migration agreement
4. Wide of Faeser, Mudavadi, Scholz, and Ruto
5. Faeser and Mudavadi signing agreement
6. Mid of press
7. Wide of signing underway
8. Close of Scholz and Ruto smiling, camera tilt down to Faeser and Mudavadi signing agreement, standing up, shaking hands, posing for cameras
9. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
"A very important agreement from my point of view. It opens up prospects for Kenyans because skilled workers or young people can come to Germany for training. This can help us to compensate for the glaring shortage of skilled labor."
10. Scholz and Ruto on podium during press conference
11. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
"The agreement also provides for effective return procedures for those who have come to us from Kenya but do not have or cannot acquire the right to stay with us. They can now return home more easily and quickly."
12. Scholz and Ruto on podium during press conference
13. SOUNDBITE (English) William Ruto, Kenyan President:
"Today we celebrate the signing of these comprehensive migration and labor mobility partnership agreement that will provide a context for expanding the relationship between our two countries, the people to people relationship, and for giving us an opportunity to unlock the potential in technology in Germany and human capital in Kenya, where we have a big youth bulge, educated, innovative, hard working young people."
14. Scholz and Ruto shaking hands and leaving
STORYLINE:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday afternoon received Kenyan President William Ruto for talks at the Chancellery in Berlin.

The two countries signed a migration and labor mobility agreement which Scholz said will help Germany compensate "the glaring shortage of skilled labor".

Ruto said the partnership will "unlock the potential in technology in Germany and human capital in Kenya".

The documents were signed by German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and Kenyan Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Musalia Mudavadi.

AP Video shot by Pietro de Cristofaro

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