Respect us, President tells donors

May 18, 2005

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has urged Uganda’s development partners to appreciate the country’s sovereignty as the major tenet for economic, social and political development.

By Vision Reporter

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has urged Uganda’s development partners to appreciate the country’s sovereignty as the major tenet for economic, social and political development.

Museveni was meeting Austrian MPs in his Parliamentary Building office in Kampala yesterday.

The MPs are here on a nine-day study tour of Austrian-funded development projects in the country.

According to a State House statement issued yesterday, Museveni said “donor threats to cut aid to the country raise a lot of questions concerning the independence of developing countries and undermine sovereignty in preference to aid.

“He asked the donors to allow Uganda make its own decisions because lack of independence in the past delayed Africa’s development.”

He, however, commended the Austrian government for its continued assistance in developing Uganda’s infrastructure. He asked for more support to the entire East African region, especially in upgrading the railway and road networks.

Museveni appraised the MPs on the security situation in northern Uganda, noting that the UPDF was making progress in ending the war.

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