Uganda to Host Ministerial Meeting on UN Security Council Reforms

Uganda will from January 19-20 host the African Union Committee of Ten Heads of State and Government (C10) Ministerial meeting on the reform of the United Nations Security Council.

Uganda's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Ambassador Adonia Ayebare, who announced the meeting, said the meeting will help chart a course for Africa's permanent representation on the Council.

"It is time the historical injustice of Africa not being permanently represented on the Council is addressed."

Ayebare said the meeting will be attended by foreign ministers from Kenya, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, Namibia, Zambia, Libya, Algeria, Sierra Leone and Senegal.

The meeting, he said, will "make key recommendations to the African Union Heads of States and Government."

It is important to note that Uganda last year won the battle to retain the United Nations (UN) Regional Service Centre in Entebbe (RSCE).

The centre employs, which employs over 400 Ugandans, was to be moved to Kenya.

But President Museveni in early 2018 wrote to the UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, protesting the move.

The RSCE's goal is to provide efficient, client-orientated and scalable services while reducing the missions’ footprints to UN field missions across Africa.

Uganda is the largest contributor of troops to the UN-supported African Union Mission in Somalia and currently hosts the largest number of refugees in Africa.