SPEECH BY

H.E YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI

PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

AT THE
LUNCHEON IN HONOUR OF
H.E. PARK GUEN-HYE
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA

STATE HOUSE ENTEBBE

29TH MAY, 2016
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Your Excellency Park Geun-hye, President of the Republic of Korea,

Your Excellencies, members of the Delegation from Korea,
Honorable Ministers,
Distinguished guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen.

Your Excellency,
The people of Uganda and myself welcome you to our
country on this historic visit. We salute the Korean people
who have, within a period of just 60 years, risen from
destitution and poverty to the 28 th richest country in the
world today in terms of the size of the GDP and GDP per
capita. The Korean people were able to achieve this on
account of discipline, hard work and the development of
the human resource through education.
Your father,
General Park Chung Hee, played a decisive role in that
transformation.
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The Korean people are an ancient people

identity can be traced as far back as 1392.
your nation was divided at the end of the
The African patriots, always support
reunification of the Korean nation.

whose specific
Unfortunately,
2 nd World War.
the peaceful

Uganda is undergoing socio-economic transformation

through universal education, the modernization of
infrastructure and the modernization of agriculture. With
improved infrastructure, we are now able to address the
issues of industrialization, the modernization of services
and the development of ICT.
There is a great potential for co-operation between South
Korea and Uganda for the mutual benefit of both countries.
We can buy from and sell to one another. Uganda, with a
population of 38 million people, that will be about 100
million by 2050, is, moreover, part of the huge African
continent with a current population of 1.25 billion people.
By 2050, the population of the African continent will be 2.5
billion people.
South Korea is part of the huge Asian continent and its
population of 4.4billion people. The potential for the two
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areas is huge. I am glad you came to visit us so that we

put more bricks on that potentially very lucrative cooperation.
It is my honour to propose a toast for the good health and
success of Your Excellency.
I thank you.