UNGA elects Ugandan Foreign Minister as President of 69th session

June 13, 2014

Uganda’s foreign minister Sam Kahamba Kutesa has been unanimously elected as the President of the 193-membered United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). He was in news recently for defending the Ugandan government’s stringent anti-homosexuality law which President Yoweri Museveni signed in February 2014.
The members of the UNGA elect its president annually with a different regional grouping providing a candidate or candidates. Since it was Africa’s turn to nominate a President, Mr. Kutesa was chosen unanimously by the African Union as the only candidate for the presidency of the upcoming 69^th Session. However, Western nations and human rights advocates have expressed concerns over the Uganda’s widely criticized anti-homosexuality legislation.

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