EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY
PRESS RELEASE
EAC SECRETARY GENERAL PAYS COURTESY CALL ON PRESIDENT YOWERI MUSEVENI
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Friday, 28th
October 2016: The Secretary
General of the East African Community, Amb. Liberat Mfumukeko yesterday
paid a courtesy call on His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President
of the Republic of Uganda, in State House,
Entebbe, Uganda.
The Secretary General briefed the
President on various integration matters including progress on
consolidation of Customs Union, Common Market, Monetary Union, and
Political Federation. The Secretary General also updated the President
on the progress and roadmap on the integration of the new Partner
State; South Sudan into the Community’s projects and programmes.
On his part, the President commended the
EAC Secretariat and the Partner States for fast-tracking the joining of
the Republic of South Sudan into the Community, which he emphasized, was
a great gain in the integration agenda.
He noted that this has enlarged the region’s political and economic
space.
H.E Yoweri Museveni urged the Secretary
General to fasten the process of Political Federation, adding that his
dream was to see a United Africa and not only East Africa.
President Museveni, who is the Mediator of
the Inter-Burundi Dialogue, informed Amb. Liberat Mfumukeko that it was
important and necessary to engage all stakeholders in the dialogue that
is geared towards attaining lasting peace
in Burundi. He emphasized that there was need for peace in Burundi for
the country to participate and benefit fully in the regional integration
process.
Uganda’s Minister of State for EAC
Affairs, Hon. Julius Wandera Maganda, accompanied the Secretary General
to meet the President.
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