{"id":32252,"date":"2017-11-15T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=32252"},"modified":"2017-11-15T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:26:11","slug":"eu-castigates-uganda-over-bashir-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/eu-castigates-uganda-over-bashir-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"EU castigates Uganda over Bashir visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Benjamin Jumbe:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0European Union has expressed disappointment with Uganda following its hosting of Sudan\u2019s leader Omar Al Bashir.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a 2 day state visit to Uganda by president Bashir of Sudan who was indicted by the Hague based International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p>In a Declaration by the High Representative Federica Mogherini on behalf of the European Union released last evening the EU and its Member States indicated that it regretted\u00a0the visit of President Omar Al-Bashir to\u00a0Uganda, a State party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32254\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32254 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/50634e80-9061-47bc-9c83-0b74551ba91b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/50634e80-9061-47bc-9c83-0b74551ba91b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/50634e80-9061-47bc-9c83-0b74551ba91b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/50634e80-9061-47bc-9c83-0b74551ba91b.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>President Museveni took his guest, President Omar El Bashir on a tour of his Kisozi farm.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The EU\u00a0has urged\u00a0Uganda\u00a0to respect its obligations under international law and as a State Party to the ICC, noting that it is\u00a0committed to\u00a0enforcing\u00a0international criminal law\u00a0and\u00a0to ending impunity\u00a0and remains\u00a0a staunch supporter of the ICC.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement ,the EU\u00a0 further calls on\u00a0all Member States of the United Nations\u00a0to\u00a0abide\u00a0by\u00a0and implement the resolutions adopted by the Security Council under Chapter VII of the UN Charter ,\u00a0notably\u00a0UNSCR 1593(2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Benjamin Jumbe: The\u00a0European Union has expressed disappointment with Uganda following its hosting of Sudan\u2019s leader Omar Al Bashir. This follows a 2 day state visit to Uganda by president Bashir of Sudan who was indicted by the Hague based International Criminal Court. In a Declaration by the High Representative Federica Mogherini on behalf of the European Union released last evening the EU and its Member States indicated that it regretted\u00a0the visit of President Omar Al-Bashir to\u00a0Uganda, a State party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The EU\u00a0has urged\u00a0Uganda\u00a0to respect its obligations under international law and as a State Party to the ICC, noting that it is\u00a0committed to\u00a0enforcing\u00a0international criminal law\u00a0and\u00a0to ending impunity\u00a0and remains\u00a0a staunch supporter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}