French President Nicolas Sarkozy will visit Rwanda next month after the two countries resumed diplomatic ties marred by mutual recriminations over the 1994 genocide, Rwanda's foreign ministry said.
   

The announcement came after France's newly appointed ambassador to Kigali,  Laurent Contini, presented his credentials to Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo on Wednesday.
   

It will be the first visit by a French president since the genocide in which some 800,000 people were slaughtered.
   

The two countries announced in November the resumption of relations severed in 2006 after a French judge issued warrants against President Paul Kagame's  top aides on suspicion of being behind the assassination of a former Rwandan president, an event which sparked the genocide.