Uganda- Rwanda talks back on track
The suspended meeting between Uganda and Rwanda that was supposed to be held in October as a follow up to the September 16 one has finally been scheduled to take place today, Friday in Kampala the Nile Post has learnt.
According to government spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo, Rwanda’s high-level delegation is in Kampala for the meeting after a delay of almost two months.
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“Uganda and Rwanda will tomorrow hold a follow-up meeting at Speke Resort Munyonyo to the one held in Kigali in September to concretize the issues in the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Luanda, Angola in August, 2019,”Opondo tweeted on Thursday afternoon.
He added that the meeting will also be attended by delegations from Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo who are the facilitators to the Luanda Memorandum of Understanding signed between Presidents Museveni and Kagame in August.
“All delegations have confirmed their participation through Uganda’s Foreign Affairs ministry,” he noted.
On August, 21, in Luanda, the Angolan capital, Presidents Museveni and Paul Kagame signed a pact to end the bickering between the two close allies and this, they agreed would be followed by several meetings to fast –track the implementation of the agreement.
However, on November 18, for the second time, the follow-up meeting was postponed, after the October 13 one which was a follow up on the September 16 one in Kigali didn’t take place after Rwandan officials said they had not been contacted by their Ugandan counterparts.
Despite the signing of the August 21 pact, few of the things agreed upon have ever been fulfilled by both governments.
A few days after the pact, the Rwandan government blocked a number of Ugandan websites from being viewed in Kigali whereas in retaliation, Uganda blocked the Rwanda government website, the New Times over bad mouthing it.
The relations between Uganda and Rwanda have in the past two years not been at their best with each of the two sister countries trading accusations against the other.
Whereas the Kigali establishment accuses Uganda of supporting forces bent on overthrowing their government and arresting their nationals, the Kampala government denies the claims and insists all those arrested were spies.
The frosty relations climaxed early this year with the closure of the Rwanda border shared by the two countries but the same has hurt Rwanda most because most of the products they use were either coming from Uganda or were passing through Uganda.
