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Ugandan leader bans officials from comments on Rwanda

[Uganda] Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Office of the President of Zimbabwe
We must therefore depart from a softer approach and take a decisive one. This criminal game must end now"
    NAIROBI

    Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ordered government officials on Saturday to stop making comments on the country's relations with its erstwhile ally Rwanda, news organisations reported.

    "Irresponsible provocative talk by leaders will scare off investments in the two countries," he said, the state-owned New Vision newspaper reported on Monday.

    Museveni, speaking at a Kampala news conference, was referring to remarks made by Ugandan Defence Minister Amama Mbabazi that drew immediate reaction from Rwanda. In those comments, Mbabazi said that Uganda would not have any serious fraternal security or political dealings with Rwanda unless issues surrounding the 1999 clashes between their armies in Kisangani, the Democratic Republic of Congo, were resolved.

    Responding, Rwanda's director of cabinet, Theogene Rudasingwa, said the claim that the Rwandan Patriotic Army contributed in no small measure to Uganda's security problems was "far-fetched, unfortunate and absolutely untrue", The Monitor, a Kampala daily, reported on Sunday.

    The leaders of both countries met in London on 6 November to establish channels through which they could improve their relations and ensure that dissident groups do not destabilise each other's governments.

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