A Sunday meeting between Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan counterpart, Mr Paul Kagame, in Luanda Angola, has ended with resolutions to release prisoners and promises by the two administrations not to support “destabilisers” as well as protecting human rights.
It was also agreed that an ad Hoc team would meet before the two heads of State meet again on February 21, at Katuna border, according to a tweet by Mr Don Wanyama, Mr Museveni’s press secretary.
Wanyama said the two heads of state also agreed to have human rights of each other’s citizens to be protected but also the ad-hoc teams to continue before a meeting between Museveni and Kagame at the Katuna border point on February 2, 2020.
It is expected that something tangible in regards the opening of the common border might be reached during the meeting at the common border at Katuna.
“Uganda will do its part to ensure resolutions of the summit are implemented,”Museveni said in a post on his official social media accounts.
The Sunday meeting was attended by Mr Felix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
DRC has been the overseer of the implementation of the Luanda Memorandum of Understanding.
The frosty relations between Uganda and Rwanda that had gone on for a couple of years finally became pronounced in March last year when Rwanda closed its borders with her immediate neighbor, Uganda.
The two presidents of Rwanda and Uganda in August 2019 signed an agreement in Angola to ease months of tensions after the two leaders exchanged accusations against each other but there has been slow progress in the implementation of the agreement so as to ensure a return to normalcy of the relations.
Last week, Paul Kagame said he is not about to allow Rwandans citizens resume coming to Uganda because he has no control over them while there.
