Museveni chairs EAC, EU talks in Brussels
Sep 28, 2017
EAC heads of state tasked him to lead a regional delegation to discuss EPAs and Burundi sanctions
President Yoweri Museveni and the EU president in Brussels.
President Yoweri Museveni who is also chairperson of the East African Community (EAC) is expected lead talks between member states and the European Union over the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs).
The EU Commission president, Jean Claude Juncker, will lead his bloc in the talks slated for Thursday in Brussels Belgium
In May, as he assumed the EAC chair in Dar es Salaam, other heads of state tasked Museveni to lead a regional delegation to Brussels to discuss the issue of EPAs and sanctions over Burundi.
Museveni also promised to raise the issue of the EU threatening to impose sanctions on Kenya, which had signed the EPAs but could not enforce them because other countries in the region were yet to come on board.
The Ugandan delegation at the talks includes: the 2ndDeputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, Kirunda Kivejinja, Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa, Trade and Cooperatives Minister, Amelia Kyambadde, Uganda's Ambassador to Belgium, Mirjam Blaak.