New Delhi [India], October 26 (ANI): Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs V Muraleedharan on Thursday met Uganda's Permanent Representative to UN Adonia Ayebare and congratulated Uganda for taking up the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and G77 Chairship.

"A pleasure to receive Amb @adoniaayebare, PR of Uganda to the UN in New York at my Office. Congratulated Uganda for taking up the NAM & G77 Chairship. Wished successful NAM and G77 Summits in Kampala in January next year," MoS Muraleedharan wrote on 'X'.

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Recently, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar said India and Uganda have very converging perspectives which are based on the solidarity of the south-south cooperation between the two nations.

He said that out of many conversations during his visit to Uganda in April, future cooperation between India-Africa, and especially India-Uganda was an important subject.

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Calling the African nation of Uganda "noteworthy", the External Affairs Minister in his podcast said that he has seen new intensity in interactions between New Delhi and Kampala and that even as we look towards the development side, India has a clear purpose with regard to expanding its economic interactions with the African country.

"When I came here to Kampala, I had the privilege of meeting President Museveni almost immediately. I had interaction with the minister of foreign affairs and defence, the minister of trade, the minister of water resources and many of their colleagues," Jaishankar informed in the podcast that was posted on the EAM's Twitter handle.

He underlined two important events which coincided with his visit.

Talking about the events in his podcast of the Uganda visit, he said, "On was of the inauguration of the campus of National Forensic Science University and second of beginning of construction of solar water pump project which would bring water to half a million Ugandans spread across 20 districts." (ANI)

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