The State Minister for Trade Hon Harriet Ntabazi has said that Uganda will abandon the American market if its participation is hinged on condition that the country accepts homosexuality!
The Minister argues that Uganda already has enough markets to sell all its products and not ready to participate in conditional trade.
“The team was given powers to deliver the message of President Museveni, but of course, they will not push us to the wall because the President has been passionate about homosexuality and you cannot change his mind because that is the voice of Ugandans. Ugandans are saying, you cannot go homosexual and the President cannot come up and break that law because he is part of Ugandans. He is one of the indigenous Ugandans who have shaped it to what it is now,” said Minister Ntabazi.
The Minister said that the US Government must not mix issues of trade and human rights, noting that Uganda already had complaints about US demanding Uganda to only export raw materials without adding value.
She said such a move is disadvantageous to the country, thus calling for the need to conduct more negotiations to have such conditions changed.
