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The Ethiopian Ambassador, Her Excellency Alemtsehay Meseret Gelawu yesterday paid a courtesy call on the Senior Presidential Advisor for Special Operations and UPDF Commander Land Forces Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
The two held a meeting that was also attended by the Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Mr. Vincent Bagiire.
Gen Kainerugaba and his guest discussed the longstanding friendship between Uganda and Ethiopia and other bilateral issues.
"We both reaffirmed the solid and friendly relations between the two countries and also resolved to continue close cooperation in the pursuit of peace and security in our respective countries and in the region," Gen Kainerugaba said after the meeting.
Both Uganda and Ethiopia enjoy good bilateral ties and institutional links across different levels of government, civil society and buisiness.
It should be remembered for example that at the height of the Tigray crisis in 2020, an Ethiopian delegation led by the Deputy Prime Minister, Demeke Mekonnen Hassen met President Yoweri Museveni as they sought to end the crisis.
While in Ethiopia late last year, President Yoweri Museveni urged African political leaders and the African people in general to shun the politics of identity that characterized most of the post-independence Africa noting that politics of identity that was mostly based on tribes and religions were counterproductive, diversionary and led to the emergency of many failed states in post-independence Africa.
The Ugandan President said this at Meskel Square in the Ethiopian capital Addis-Ababa where he addressed a mammoth rally of Ethiopian people that was also attended by many other African leaders to mark the inauguration of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for a new five-year term.
