President Museveni visited South Korea in September 2014.
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Kenya and South Korea Tuesday signed multi-billion dollar cooperation agreements in such areas as technology, industry, health, and energy, during South Korean President Park Geun-Hye’s visit to the East African country.
“I hope that our two governments will continue to nurture a mutually beneficial partnership in which we can learn and grow together by organically harmonizing Korea’s experience with Kenya’s potential”, Park said in an opinion piece published in Kenya’s Daily Nation on Monday. In a speech Wednesday before the African Union in Ethiopia, Park urged African leaders to support worldwide efforts to denuclearize rival North Korea.
The pact on cooperation in e-Government will see Kenya and South share best practices and technical exchanges to increase efficiency and effectiveness of Government services for the benefit of the people of the two countries.
South Korea’s president Park Geun-hye receives flowers from Megan Makanga, a grade one pupil of Charm International School, as she arrives at State House in Entebbe, Uganda, Sunday, May 29, 2016.
The deals were signed around Park’s meetings with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Ambassador Mugume noted that, media remarks by Minister of Foreign Affairs were taken grossly out of context, given that he was responding to a question on whether, in light of the United Security Council resolution 2276, the Government of Uganda would continue working with the DPRK which has been offering military and police training to Uganda.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye has arrived in the Kenyan capital Nairobi for a three-day state visit during which she will sign various bilateral agreements with her host President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Defense Ministry officials from the two countries also signed a memorandum of understanding on defense and military technology cooperation.
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According to the joint statement, by cutting ties with Pyongyang, Uganda was sending a strong signal in support of North Korea’s increasing isolation from the rest of the world due to its nuclear weapons program. Chinese contractors are involved in road construction in Uganda and the Chinese national oil company has invested in Uganda’s oil sector. Kenya is home to about 1,100 South Koreans.
