President Museveni has agreed to consider an offer from Israel’s caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to open the country’s embassy in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu arrived in the country hours ago with a blitz diplomatic visit aimed at bolstering bilateral ties in various areas.
Ahead of the trip, Netanyahu touted that some big news could be coming up, with the media speculating far and wide that the PM could announce that an embassy would actually be opened.
However, the statement coming from Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni fell short of that, with the leader rather agreeing to mull the invitation to do the move extended by Netanyahu.
Netanyahu, for his part, pledged to open an embassy in Uganda’s capital of Kampala.
Following through with the embassy opening would make Uganda the third country to set up a full-fledged diplomatic footprint in Jerusalem, following the US and Guatemala.
Out of some 86 diplomatic missions present in Israel, most are located in Tel Aviv in a bid to stay neutral in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
