Uganda: Commonwealth Parliament Meeting to Market Uganda - Organisers

18 September 2019

By the time Uganda hosted its first and only Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference to-date in 1967, the country had been independent for only about five years. That opportunity also came during a year when Uganda had just been declared a republic following the proclamation of a new Constitution, and had just got its first executive president.

Fifty-two years have gone by since then without a similar opportunity to host legislators from all the former British colonies. But that will change later this month when Uganda lays out the red carpet for at least 1,000 Commonwealth MPs and their guests from around the world, who are slated to attend the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC).

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