{"id":229831,"date":"2022-06-27T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T10:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/speaker-among-commends-cuba-for-support-to-uganda?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-06-27T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T10:06:11","slug":"speaker-among-commends-cuba-for-support-to-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/speaker-among-commends-cuba-for-support-to-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Among commends Cuba for support to Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/53455a04d1c1f3e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/53455a04d1c1f3e\" alt=\"Parliament of the Republic of Uganda\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/53455a04d1c1f3e\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaker Anita Among has commended the Government of Cuba for its continued support towards the implementation of various development programmes in Uganda.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Among made the remarks during a meeting with Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuba&rsquo;s Minister of Foreign Affairs at Hotel Africana in Kampala on Sunday, 26 June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I acknowledge the instrumental role that your government is playing towards the improvement of our education, agriculture and most importantly, in the health sector,&rdquo; Among said.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, she lauded the role that Cuban doctors played in setting up Mbarara University of Science and Technology which has since trained over 1,000 medical professionals.<\/p>\n<p>On his part,&nbsp; Parrilla said, &lsquo;Cuba is willing to enhance ties with Uganda towards socio-economic transformation&hellip; we shall surely continue to support Uganda&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda and Cuba have enjoyed excellent diplomatic relations since Cuba opened its diplomatic mission in Kampala in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries have reinforced each other&rsquo;s positions at international fora through the Non-Aligned Movement, the G77 and the United Nations where Parrilla said they have always defended and protected their mutual strategic political and economic interests.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Among also thanked President Museveni for the continued engagements with different countries on strategic social, political and economic partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, for example, President Kaguta Museveni met a contingent of specialised Cuban scientists at State House Entebbe to work with indigenous experts to develop an anti-tick acaricide called Gavac and enhance training of medical workers in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Parliament of the Republic of Uganda.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo Speaker Anita Among has commended the Government of Cuba for its continued support towards the implementation of various development programmes in Uganda. Among made the remarks during a meeting with Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuba&rsquo;s Minister of Foreign Affairs at Hotel Africana in Kampala on Sunday, 26 June 2022. &ldquo;I acknowledge the instrumental role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-229831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/speaker-among-commends-cuba-for-support-to-uganda.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}