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Guterres arrived at Entebbe International Airport on Friday, January 19 and he was received by the Third Deputy Prime Minister Rukia Isanga Nakadama and Adonia Ayebare, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Uganda to the United Nations.
NAM summit kicked off on January 15 and will end Sunday, January 20 at Speke Resort Munyonyo while the G77+ China Summit will be opened on Sunday, January 21 and end on Monday, January 22 at the same venue.
Several world leaders flew into Uganda to attend the summits. The Non-Aligned Movement was founded and held its first conference (the Belgrade Conference) in 1961 under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and Sukarno of Indonesia.
The current chairman of the Movement is Azerbaijani President, Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev, who assumed the seat at the 18th Summit of NAM that was held in October 2019 in Baku, Azerbaijan. One of the items on the agenda at the NAM Summit is electing a new chairman.
NAM is guided by a framework of principles that include mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-aggression, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence among others.
With the theme 'Leaving No One Behind', the Third South Summit, or G77 + China Summit looks to bring a new dynamic to the cooperation among its 134 Member States of the Group of 77 in a more competitive world.
The The Summit aims at boosting South-South cooperation including in the areas of trade, investment, sustainable development, climate change, poverty eradication, and digital economy.