Uganda, Rwanda agree on verification committee

Dec 14, 2019

The meeting under the facilitation of Angola and DRC took place at Munyonyo

Uganda and Rwanda on Friday agreed on the creation of a joint verification commission to help ascertain the litany of accusations and counter-accusations that are currently at the heart of their frosty relations.

The development was part of the second meeting of the ad hoc commission of the Luanda (Angola) memorandum of understanding between Rwanda and Uganda in August.

The meeting under the facilitation of Angola and DRC took place at Munyonyo, a Kampala suburb.

"The issues at hand are resolvable," Sam Kutesa, Uganda's foreign minister and its leader of the delegation said.

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"We have agreed on the formation of a joint verification committee to help ascertain accusations against each other," he added.

Other members of Uganda's delegation included Deputy Attorney General, Mwesigwa Rukutana, state minister for internal affairs, Obiga Kania, Deputy Chief of Defence Forces, Lt Gen. Wilson Mbadhi and head Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence Brig. Abel Kandiho.

Rwanda's state minister for East African Community, Ambassador Olivier Nduhungirehe who led the Rwandan delegation, just like Kutesa before him made a case for "good faith and will" if issues behind the bad blood between the two countries can be solved.

 

However, the talks, save for a meeting of minds on the extradition treaty between the two countries did not cover much ground.

More sticking issues, according to Kutesa, will require further consultation of the two countries' heads of states.

Uganda and Rwanda are in the throes of a diplomatic spat over accusations by the former that Kampala is supporting dissident groups bent on regime change in Kigali.

Uganda has denied such accusations and instead, accused Kigali of seeking to infiltrate its security agencies.

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