{"id":24671,"date":"2021-06-22T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24671"},"modified":"2021-06-22T08:35:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:35:30","slug":"gen-jeje-odongo-pledges-peace-honest-friendship-as-he-takes-charge-of-foreign-affairs-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/gen-jeje-odongo-pledges-peace-honest-friendship-as-he-takes-charge-of-foreign-affairs-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Jeje Odongo Pledges Peace, Honest Friendship As He Takes Charge Of Foreign Affairs Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda&#8217;s new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gen Jeje Odongo has promised to follow a path of peace and honest friendship with nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Odongo made the pledge after taking Oath as Minister on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I pledge peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,&#8221; Odongo tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added, &#8220;Uganda will fulfill its international responsibilities and will face every challenge on its doorstep with honesty and integrity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeje replaces Sam Kahamba Kutesa who had been at the post since 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Odongo moves to Foreign Affairs after serving as Internal Affairs Minister from 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously he served as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minister_of_Defence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minister of State for Defence<\/a>\u00a0from February 2009 to June 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gen Jeje Odongo has promised to follow a path of peace and honest friendship with nations. Odongo made the pledge after taking Oath as Minister on Monday. &#8220;I pledge peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,&#8221; Odongo tweeted. He added, &#8220;Uganda will fulfill its international responsibilities and will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-24671","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\/24671","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=24671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24673,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671\/revisions\/24673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}