Sri Lankan president Rajapaska praises Uganda's beauty

By Vision Reporter

President Mahinda Rajapaska of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has praised Uganda’s tourism industry for its promotion and conservation efforts of wildlife and said they have greatly enhanced the country’s national beauty.

President Rajapaska was in the country on a four-day official visit. He was among the high profile personalities who addressed the 7th Commonwealth local government conference at the Commonwealth Resort in Munyonyo.

He took time off for a tour of Murchison National Park where he planted a tree at Para Safari Lodge before taking a three-hour boat ride to the falls and later to the Nile Delta.

The two leaders exchanged pleasantries in a meeting that was also attended by the Minister of State for International affairs Okello Oryem, Members of Parliament and the Kamuli District LCV chairperson and member of the local government, Salaamu Musumba.

President Rajapaska who was accompanied by the Sri Lanka High Commissioner to Uganda Ambassador Velupillai Kananathan, the minister for external affairs Professor G.L. Peiris and Uganda’s minister of state for tourism, Agnes Akiror, was later Thursday hosted to a luncheon by President Museveni at State House Entebbe shortly before the President saw his guest off.