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Making your way through the entrance, you are greeted by sparkling floors, glistening chandeliers, and an ambience of grandeur in and out.

This is the best description of the Speke Resort Convention Center, the venue of for Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and G77+ China summit 2024.

According to the Ministry of Tourism, the Convention Center is ready.

Agriculter minister Frank Tumwebaze with Sudhir Ruparelia at Speke Resort Convention Center.

Uganda will host the 19th Summit of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Heads of State and Government, a forum of 120 member states from 15 to 20 January 2024, at the Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort. 

Then from 21 to 23 January, at the same venue, Uganda will host the Third South Summit organized under the framework of Group 77 and China, a loose alliance of developing countries.

At the events, Uganda will assume the chairmanship of NAM for three years and, G77 and China for one year which Mulimba said will come along with a boost to the economy.

The upgrading and expansion of Entebbe International Airport is being undertaken by China Communications Construction Company (CCCC).

The newly built 10,000-square-meter cargo center was commissioned in April and construction of a new terminal building covering an area of 20,000 square meters is half-way complete.