Africa-Press – Eswatini. Eswatini is among countries participating in the 19th Non-Aligned Movement Summit of the Heads of State and Government taking place in Uganda.
The summit is the largest grouping of states worldwide after the United Nations.
On January 21, 2020 Uganda was unanimously endorsed to host the summit. The summit started yesterday and will end on Saturday at the Speke Resort, in Munyonyo, Kampala.
The summit seeks to bring together leaders from around the world to address pressing issues and foster cooperation among member nations.
The summit will be preceded by the Ministerial Meeting, which will be preceded by the senior officials meeting that began yesterday and ends today.
Ambassador Mahlala Mamba and Under Secretary (US) Political Affairs, Vulindlela Kunene, are participating in the senior officials meeting.
The summit will consider the report of the preparatory ministerial meeting, review the progress achieved in the implementation of the outcomes of the 18th Summit held in 2019, and conclude the adoption of the Kampala Declaration.
Minister of foreign affairs in Uganda Gen jeje Odongo said the conference emphasises deepening cooperation and collaboration within the member states.
He said he believed that this would be a moment to be highlighted in the outcome. He said it was crucial for member states to address existing new and emerging issues politically and in the interest of members.
“Today we are facing challenges around the world, including conflicts in different security, migration and employment, health and climate change, among the many challenges that we face,” the minister stated.
During the last summit the Heads of State and Government emphasised that the global scenario presents great challenges in the areas of peace and security, economic development and social progress, human rights and the rule of law to non-aligned countries.
They affirmed that many new areas of concern and challenges have emerged, particularly the global financial and economic crisis, which warrants the renewal of commitment by the international community to uphold and defend the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law.
In taking stock of developments at the international level since the last summit of ministers of the movement, they noted with concern that the collective desire of the movement to establish a peaceful and prosperous world as well as a just and equitable world order remains encumbered by fundamental impediments.
Developing
These impediments, it was disclosed, were in the form of, inter alia, the severe adverse impact of the global financial and economic crises on the economic growth and development of developing countries, which could lead to increasing poverty and deprivation in these countries, the continuing lack of resources and underdevelopment of the majority of the developing world, on the one hand; and in the form of, inter alia, the continuing unequal terms of trade and the lack of cooperation from developed countries, as well as the coercive and unilateral measures imposed by some of them and the use of force or the threats of use of force, on the other hand.
The summit discussed that the rich and powerful countries continue to exercise an inordinate influence in determining the nature and direction of international relations, including economic and trade relations, as well as the rules governing these relations, under the pretext of ‘democracy’, ‘human rights’ and ‘anti-terrorism’, many of which are at the expense of developing countries.
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