President Yoweri Museveni is set to invite his French counterpart Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frederic Macron for an official visit to Uganda next year when the country celebrates the NRM Liberation Day, observed on January 26th each year.
“I’m going to write to H.E Macron and invite him here to discuss African and World issues, including Europe” H.E Museveni said, adding that “Europe has nothing to lose if they work well with Africa”
The President revealed this on Monday while meeting the outgoing French ambassador to Uganda Jules-Armand Aniambossou who called on him at State house Entebbe.
Mr Aniambossou informed the President about his three-year diplomatic tour of duty to Uganda that has come to an end and lauded the cordial relations that exist between the two countries
of Uganda and France.
“For the time I have spent here, I discovered Uganda is a very beautiful country. I consider myself somehow like Ugandan and will leave the country as an ambassador. We have done well on our bilateral relations,” he said.
Aniambossou is now headed to Ghana where he will serve his next 3 years as an ambassador of France in the west African country.
The outgoing French Ambassador also updated the H.E President about the efforts by France to bring peace in Eastern Congo. He said this was top on agenda during the meeting Macron, in Paris with the two Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Felix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Aniambossou however said a sustainable solution to lasting peace in Eastern Congo cannot be achieved without the involvement of Uganda which has a wealth of experience in solving conflicts in the region.
“We know that we cannot find a sustainable solution without Uganda. We also need to get your advice about the Nairobi process,” He added.