The Uganda Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs has urged the Uganda Ministry of Foreign Affairs to come up with manageable budgets for international summits.

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The current budget of the AU summit stretches to about 12 billion Uganda shillings. Uganda Parliament recently called for the review of the AU summit before passing additional 5.6 billion shillings.

Uganda MP Betty Amongi told Parliament that Uganda is a poor country which should have standardized budgets for international summits to ensure optimum use of the little national resources.

Amongin who is also a member of the Uganda Parliamentary Committee on Foreign affairs says that although Uganda parliament largely approved the additional budget, it has cut the budget by about 200 million Uganda shillings due to duplication of activities.

She cited a provision for Internet services in more than two areas of the budget yet internet service provision is an aspect that can only be covered under a single area of the budget.

Uganda will host the 15th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union (AU) from 19th to 27th July, 2010.

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Parliament declined to approve the budget because it wanted further explanations from the Ministry of Finance regarding expenditures during the summit.

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The Summit that will bring together all African countries that make up the African Union will take place next month.

The Minister of Finance in charge of Planning Ephraim Kamuntu told journalists at Uganda Parliament today that his ministry will soon give a detailed explanation to parliament regarding the expenditures of next month’s African Union summit.

He says his ministry will meet with the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Planning and Economic Development next week to ensure a timely approval.

The 2007 CHOGM summit in Uganda was marred by corruption with top government ministers implicated for swindling billions of Uganda taxpayer’s money meant for organizing the summit

By Tiberindwa Zakaria

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