{"id":2412,"date":"2021-02-19T04:59:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T04:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:23","slug":"museveni-meets-eu-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/02\/19\/museveni-meets-eu-ambassadors\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni Meets EU Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2413 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/museveni-3-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/museveni-3-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/museveni-3.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has warned European Union envoys to Uganda to stop getting involved in matters they don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday at State House Entebbe while meeting EU envoys led by their head of the delegation, Ambassador Attilio Pacifici, Museveni said such interference in the past has caused a lot of problems in some African countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy involving yourselves in matters that you don\u2019t understand, even if you do understand, you should not get involved because this kind of misconduct can lead to many serious consequences and suffering of the people like it happened in some African countries,\u201d Museveni said.<\/p>\n<p>Museveni\u2019s meeting with the EU comes just a day after Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa responded to the European Union\u2019s parliament\u2019s resolution to sanction Uganda over what they called continued attacks on human and political rights.<\/p>\n<p>The EU delegation in Uganda has also expressed concern over how the recently concluded elections were organized. The ambassadors two weeks ago also met with Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert, Museveni\u2019s close challenger in the election.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by State House, Museveni asked the envoys to always consult with government officials in case they want clarification on any issues.\u00a0 He promised to share with them a report on the investigations being carried out by security agencies following the November 2020 riots in Kampala and other urban areas which led to the death of more than 54 people.<\/p>\n<p>Museveni said Uganda and the European Union are not adversaries that should work at close purpose but should focus on strengthening their shared goals. \u201cFor us, we don\u2019t see you as enemies, remove all the diversions and concentrate on the shared goals and help one another for the prosperity of our people,\u201d Museveni said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has warned European Union envoys to Uganda to stop getting involved in matters they don\u2019t understand. Speaking on Thursday at State House Entebbe while meeting EU envoys led by their head of the delegation, Ambassador Attilio Pacifici, Museveni said such interference in the past has caused a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}