President Yoweri Museveni has met with the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General to the Great Lakes region, Mr. Xia Huang and delegation at State House Entebbe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President and the Special Envoy discussed strategies on how to further boost greater development and cooperation among the countries of the Great Lakes Region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Secretary General Huang Xia briefed the President ahead of\nthe forthcoming Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace,\nSecurity and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)\nand the Great Lakes region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also noted that the UN\nis steadfast in continuing to support the countries of the Great Lakes region\nand that his meeting with the President comes at an ideal time when the Great Lakes\nnations are looking forward to the regional oversight mechanism summit in\nKinshasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On political situation, Mr. Xia Huang noted that the governments in the region have made an effort in using democracy to govern their countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He reiterated that the UN and the region must work hand in hand to make sure that democracy is maintained in the electoral processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He\nwas also happy to note that within the Great Lakes region, Uganda is one of the\nmost influential countries with an efficient Human Rights Commission<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their\nmeeting comes days to the 4th<\/sup> Quadripartite Summit at Katuna border.\nIn October last year, members of the UN Security Council were\nbriefed by Mr. Huang Xia, about the positive developments in the Great\nLakes region, particularly the diplomatic efforts facilitated by Presidents\nJo\u00e3o Manuel Gon\u00e7alves Louren\u00e7o of Angola and F\u00e9lix Antoine Tshilombo Tshisekedi\nof the Democratic Republic of the Congo that led to the Quadripartite Summit in\nLuanda Angola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The members of the Security Council welcomed the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0August memorandum of understanding between President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n They looked forward to its implementation, which will contribute to easing their economic and political relations, for the benefit of the whole region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Yoweri Museveni has met with the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General to the Great Lakes region, Mr. Xia Huang and delegation at State House Entebbe. The President and the Special Envoy discussed strategies on how to further boost greater development and cooperation among the countries of the Great Lakes Region. Secretary General […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":14043,"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-14042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n