By President Museveni has rallied Commonwealth nations to reject what he has repeatedly called “evil imperialism.”
Museveni, who has long stood up to the West, claimed that to eradicate arrogant Western beliefs, it was necessary to make use of the 2.4 billion people living in Commonwealth states.
The president made these remarks while officiating the opening ceremony of the 27th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth at Speke Resort Hotel Munyonyo.
Museveni also attributed the current Middle East crisis to “philosophical, ideological, and strategic shallowness.”
“The crisis could be traced back to Roman imperialism when they dispersed the Jews. Up to now, we’re dealing with a mistake of the Romans. What were they doing in the Middle East?” he remarked as he decried “foreign and local actors who miscalculate and seek to monopolize and use knowledge to oppress others.”
A week after the United States withdrew Uganda from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade agreement, President Museveni has urged Commonwealth nations not to support what he often referred to as “evil imperialisms
Museveni noted that to eradicate chauvinistic notions, it was necessary to take advantage of the 2.4 billion people living in Commonwealth states.
“Interactions between the colonizer and colonization, although negative for most of the times, also had their positive sides that should be built on for mutual benefits.”
“Let us concentrate on utilizing the progress of man in the struggle against the oppression of man by nature rather than using that progress in science and technology for parasitism,” Museveni noted
CSPOC was created in 1969 as an initiative of the then Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada, Lucien Lamoureux.
CSPOC membership is restricted to the Speakers and Presiding Officers of national parliaments of all independent sovereign states of the Commonwealth. It consists of 22 bicameral parliaments and 30 unicameral parliaments.
