President Yoweri Museveni and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir have held bilateral discussions at State House, Entebbe on matters pertaining to the 2 sister countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Kiir arrived in Uganda today on a 2-day working visit at the invitation of his host.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two leaders\u2019 bilateral\ndiscussions also included matters relating to the extension of the road and\nelectricity to South Sudan\u2019s Capital, Juba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Museveni told officials of\nthe 2 countries at the conclusion of the tete-a-tete discussions with his\nguest, that the people of South Sudan do not need war but peace and elections\nin order to stabilize their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On his part, President Salva Kiir talked about the situation in his country since 2013. \u201cNow the guns are almost silent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The forces that are still resistant are not a big threat. \u201cI welcome all those that are willing to return home to participate in the transitional government before<\/em> the national elections that are underway for people to take decision on who is to lead them,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n President Museveni also introduced President Kiir to members of the East African Business Council (EABC) who had earlier held a meeting with President Museveni whom they briefed on the Council\u2019s plans to build a vibrant private sector ecosystem through increased national, regional and global engagement with the East African Government, people and business community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Yoweri Museveni and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir have held bilateral discussions at State House, Entebbe on matters pertaining to the 2 sister countries. President Kiir arrived in Uganda today on a 2-day working visit at the invitation of his host.\u00a0 The two leaders\u2019 bilateral discussions also included matters relating to the extension […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":10957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-10956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions\/10958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}