UGANDA DISMISSES CONCERNS
Kenya, home to the port of Mombasa that is vital to land-locked Rwanda and Uganda, has held several meetings with both Kampala and Kigali about speeding up the transit of goods.
The three nations have agreed on plans for a new railway that will connect the three states. At a meeting in July, Kenya said it would allow Rwanda and Uganda to collect customs on goods at arrival at the port to help speed up clearance.
"The meetings that Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda have had where Tanzania did not participate were for discussing infrastructure projects to connect the countries involved in these ventures," Okello Oryem, Uganda's junior foreign affairs minister, said.
"They have nothing to do with EAC affairs or the integration process in the sense of the traditional meetings that we're used to," he told Reuters.
Tanzania, he added, was invited to any gatherings that involved meetings about the community.
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