Meeting between HR/VP Federica Mogherini and Uganda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sam Kutesa

On the 13 February 2017, the High-Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini met in Brussels with Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sam Kutesa.

HR/VP Mogherini and MFA Kutesa exchanged views on key political challenges in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes regions, including in South Sudan, Somalia and Burundi. With regard to the massive influx of refugees from South Sudan to Uganda, the HR/VP acknowledged Uganda's exemplary hospitality and progressive refugee policies and confirmed that Uganda can continue counting on the European Union's political and financial support for handling such a testing task.

• Primary Source

EU: EEAS: Uganda and the European Union https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/1947/

ESO: Background information: The situation in Kasese District: Statement by the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-situation-in-kasese-district-statement-by-the-european-union/

ESO: Background information: Africa uprising? The protests, the drivers, the outcomes http://www.europeansources.info/record/africa-uprising-the-protests-the-drivers-the-outcomes/

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