The Vice President met Bernard Makuza at the Senate, accompanied by Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Vijay Sampla and other senior officials. The two sides then held bilateral talks, an official said.
Ansari also gifted a copy of the Indian Constitution to Makuza. He later attended a luncheon hosted by the Senate President.
"This visit intends to tie bilateral cooperation between #Rwanda and #India," the Rwanda Parliament said in a tweet.
Earlier in the day, Ansari visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial and paid tributes to the victims of the horrific tragedy. The site is the final resting place for more than 250,000 people who were massacred in the 1994 in Rwanda.
Highligting the importance of the Indian diaspora, Ansari, while speaking at a banquet last night, said, "I arrived here to know there is a good, very purposeful, very entrenched Indian community here. Our relationship with Rwanda, I hope would grow much stronger in coming weeks...As we have indeed turned a page."
This is India's first high-level visit to Rwanda. Ansari will depart from Kigali tomorrow for the next leg of his visit to Uganda.