“Within the one yr during which you’ve gotten entrusted me to go the group, I’ll push these three factors; Manufacturing of products and companies, coping with the problem of markets and the problem of the infrastructure. We should have the ability to hyperlink producers of products and companies and the customers,” President Museveni stated.
Whereas talking to the Heads of State and Authorities representatives in the course of the closing session of the Third South Summit of the Group of 77 and China at Commonwealth Conference Heart in Kampala on Monday January 22, 2024, H.E Museveni famous that as somebody who has been concerned in resistance motion for greater than 60 years can not proceed to observe the one-sided pattern the place the pockets of Africans help the prosperity of different individuals.
“All of us ought to prosper sustainably. All these many years, I’ve been watching the pockets of Ugandans supporting the prosperity of different individuals. Africa has been supporting the prosperity of others for a very long time. So, this group can assist us to stability that contribution to our respective prosperities,” Museveni stated, including that African international locations have already launched into the problem of selling commerce amongst themselves.
“Right here in Africa, we’re working with the regional markets of east Africa, of the entire of Africa however we additionally need commerce hyperlinks with our different brothers of the Non-Aligned Motion (NAM) and the Group of 77. They purchase from us, and we purchase from them. That may push the prosperity of all of us,” H.E Museveni highlighted.
In accordance with the President, this would be the solely method to obtain the aspirations and goals of the 2 themes; “Deepening Cooperation for Shared World Affluence” and “Leaving No One Behind” for NAM and G77+ China Summits respectively for which he has taken management for the subsequent 3 years.
“This grouping is just not as small because it seems to be. If we work collectively there’s nothing we can not obtain. There’s a lot we are able to do collectively,” Museveni asserted. He nevertheless pressured that prosperity can’t be achieved if the group nonetheless has pockets of insecurity as that is among the many prime impediments to funding.
“This assumes that we now have peace amongst ourselves. As a result of if we don’t have peace, we will not obtain this. I must be in contact with our brothers and sisters who have gotten tensions and even conflicts to see how win-win options might be discovered,” the President stated.
Uganda yesterday assumed the chairmanship of the Group of 77 plus China (G77+China) and President Museveni will within the subsequent one yr lead the most important negotiating bloc of creating international locations within the United Nations, which supplies the means for the international locations of the South to articulate and promote their collective financial pursuits.
The Group of 77 (G-77) was established on 15 June 1964 by seventy-seven creating international locations signatories of the “Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Creating Nations” issued on the finish of the primary session of the United Nations Convention on Commerce and Improvement (UNCTAD) in Geneva.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Republic of Uganda – Ministry of Overseas Affairs.
