{{Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa has demanded for Africa’s permanent membership at the UN security council saying a bigger part the council\u2019s agenda relates to African situations and thus a need for an African Voice.}}<\/p>\n
He said African states are like \u201cvisitors\u201d on the Security Council because they seem inert in decision-making on even their own matters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not represented permanently and we do not have a veto like other members on the council. Why Africans?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He made the remarks in his keynote address at the launch of the national 50th anniversary celebrations of the Organisation of African Union (OAU)\/African Union (AU) at Serena Hotel, in Kampala on Monday.<\/p>\n
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