Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration to take in migrants deported from the United States, the central African nation’s foreign minister said late Sunday.

It was unclear if a deal would involve migrants who had already been deported or those who will be in the future, but any agreement could make Rwanda the first African country to enter into such an accord with the United States.

Rwanda’s foreign minister, Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe, said on Sunday that his country’s government was in “early stage” talks about receiving third-country deportees from the United States.

“It is true that we are in discussions with the United States,” Mr. Nduhungirehe said in an interview with Rwanda TV, the state broadcaster. “These talks are still ongoing, and it would be premature to conclude how they will unfold,” he added.

Rwanda’s government did not respond to a request for comment.

A spokesperson for the State Department declined to discuss details of the talks, but said: “Ongoing engagement with foreign governments is vital to deterring illegal and mass migration and securing our borders.”

Rwanda has long positioned itself as a partner to Western nations seeking to curb migration, offering to provide asylum to migrants or house them as they await resettlement elsewhere, sometimes in return for payment. Mr. Nduhungirehe did not say whether Rwanda would be paid for the agreement.