A section of top security chiefs have inspected Commonwealth Speke Resort Munyonyo ahead of the 19th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the 3rd South Summit of the Group of Seventy Seven+China (G77+China), which are scheduled to take place in January 2024.
Ofwono Opondo, the government spokesperson who doubles as the Executive Director of the Uganda Media Centre, said the security chiefs, led by the Minister for Security, Maj. Gen. Jim Muhwezi, the Director General of Internal Security Organization, Col. Charles Oluka, and Deputy Director General of ISO, Lt. Col. Emmy Katabazi, toured and inspected the facility on Friday, January 5, 2023, to ascertain its readiness to host the two international summits.
He said other officials who inspected the facility include Ambassador Adonia Ayebare, Uganda’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, among others.
According to Ofwono, Uganda is ready to host the two international summits.
G77+China is scheduled to take place from January 21–23, 2024, under the theme “Leaving No One Behind,” while NAM is slated for January 15-20, 2024, under the theme “Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Affluence.”
The notion of NAM, adopted during the Afro-Asian conference of April 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia, was founded with the view of advancing the interests of developing countries. This was in the context of Cold War conflicts after the founding members (Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and Sukarno of Indonesia) adopted the ten ideologies referred to as the Bandung, a name that was selected because that’s the city where the conference was held, in order to guide the operations of the new international bloc.
Uganda will be the third country in history to host the NAM Summit after Qatar and Cuba in 2005 and 2000, respectively. It looks to bring a new dynamic to the cooperation among its 134 member states in a more competitive world.
On the other hand, the Group of 77 (G-77) was established on June 15, 1964, by seventy-seven signatories of the “Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Developing Countries” issued at the end of the first session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.
