Kampala — President Yoweri Museveni has reiterated the Movement government's commitment to put all available resources to proper use until the northern Uganda problem is completely solved.

Museveni made the remarks on Wednesday after attending New Year Day High Mass at the Holy Rosary Church in Gulu Municipality. The archbishop of Gulu, His Grace John Baptist Odama led the mass. The parish priest Rev. Fr. Cosmas De Ico and two assistant parish priests Rev. Frs. Igino Leso and Aldo Piera Gostini, assisted Odama.

Odama delivered to the congregation Pope John Paul's New Year message, which was written 40 years ago by the late Pope John XXIII.

The papal message calls upon the Universal Catholic Church to work for peace on earth. The Pope says that to have meaningful peace in the world, every human being must practice the four pillars of peace namely truth, justice, love and freedom.

The road to peace lays in the defence and promotion of the basic human rights which every human being must enjoy not as a benefit but as a requirement to humanity, the message said.

On the Pope's New Year message, Museveni noted that what has been happening in northern Uganda is the very opposite of the components of peace as laid out in the Pope's message.

He said people in Uganda are practicing hatred, misunderstandings and wrong aims at each other instead of working for peace.

He called upon Ugandans to change their attitude towards peace and work for better living conditions.

Museveni donated five cows to the church.