Museveni meets UK’s Jack Straw
Oct 25, 2005
President Yoweri Museveni, on a four-day working visit to UK, yesterday held talks with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
By Vision Reporter
President Yoweri Museveni, on a four-day working visit to UK, yesterday held talks with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
A presidential press secretary, Tamale Mirundi, said Museveni thanked Britain for leading the debt cancellation campaign. He assured Straw that the monies would be channelled to improve rail, roads, the energy sector and for education and health.
The meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London was attended by foreign affairs minister Sam Kutesa and Uganda’s High Commissioner Dr Thomas Kiryapawo.
Museveni asked Britain to help abolish subsidies on European markets so that Ugandan products compete favourably. He called for review of the mandate of the UN observer mission in Congo, MONUC.
Straw supported Museveni’s proposals and said Britain would help Uganda through the World Trade Organisation and the European Union to remove subsidies on agriculture.
Straw said Britain would devote more aid to reducing the cost of business. He said Britain would work with Uganda to address its concerns in the DR Congo.
museveni, who is accompanied by his wife Janet, is scheduled to discuss with the British officials international issues as well as the Great Lakes region.
Museveni is also scheduled to hold an interview with the BBC Executive Producer, Farrah Durani and the Editor of The Times, Robert Thomson. He will receive the Companions Award by CPTM at the Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, according to a State House statement issued yesterday.
Meeting European Union envoys at State House Nakasero last week, said MONUC’s weak action had turned eastern DRC into a “terrorist conservation area.â€
President Yoweri Museveni, on a four-day working visit to UK, yesterday held talks with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
A presidential press secretary, Tamale Mirundi, said Museveni thanked Britain for leading the debt cancellation campaign. He assured Straw that the monies would be channelled to improve rail, roads, the energy sector and for education and health.
The meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London was attended by foreign affairs minister Sam Kutesa and Uganda’s High Commissioner Dr Thomas Kiryapawo.
Museveni asked Britain to help abolish subsidies on European markets so that Ugandan products compete favourably. He called for review of the mandate of the UN observer mission in Congo, MONUC.
Straw supported Museveni’s proposals and said Britain would help Uganda through the World Trade Organisation and the European Union to remove subsidies on agriculture.
Straw said Britain would devote more aid to reducing the cost of business. He said Britain would work with Uganda to address its concerns in the DR Congo.
museveni, who is accompanied by his wife Janet, is scheduled to discuss with the British officials international issues as well as the Great Lakes region.
Museveni is also scheduled to hold an interview with the BBC Executive Producer, Farrah Durani and the Editor of The Times, Robert Thomson. He will receive the Companions Award by CPTM at the Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, according to a State House statement issued yesterday.
Meeting European Union envoys at State House Nakasero last week, said MONUC’s weak action had turned eastern DRC into a “terrorist conservation area.â€