President Yoweri Museveni last evening returned to Uganda from Serbia.
While in Serbia, President Museveni was seen off by the country’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dacic at Nikola Tesla Airport- Belgrade.
The President left Uganda on Wednesday, July 26th, 2023, for Russia to attend the Second Russia-Africa Summit that ran from July 27-28 in Russia’s second-largest city, Saint Petersburg.
While there, the President held bilateral talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the summit where he outlined areas of cooperation with Russia, including oil exploration, nuclear power energy, fertilisers, the Pathogenic economy, electric batteries and space science.
The President left St Petersburg on 29th July 2023 and proceeded to the Republic of Serbia for a two-day official visit at the invitation of his Serbian counterpart, H.E Aleksandar Vucic.
On Sunday, the President held bilateral talks with his host, Vucic at the Presidential Palace in Serbia’s capital of Belgrade and signed two memoranda of understanding aimed at deepening trade and agricultural co-operation between the two countries.
The President also launched the Uganda Trade Hub known as “Uganda Connect” in Belgrade aimed at strengthening the bilateral relations between Uganda and Serbia and paving the way for the country’s goods and services in the Balkans region.
