Deputy Speaker Tayebwa Urges Global Cooperation to Tackle Security Challenges

Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa has emphasized the urgent need for enhanced multilateral cooperation, dialogue, and collective action to effectively tackle escalating global security challenges. Speaking while co-chairing a joint parliamentary assembly of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, Tayebwa highlighted how conflicts and geopolitical tensions undermine international stability.

Operating under the theme of global security and multilateralism, Tayebwa noted that security and development are deeply intertwined. He argued that ongoing conflicts severely disrupt public services and divert critical resources away from essential national development goals.

Highlighting Uganda’s humanitarian efforts, Tayebwa shared that the nation currently hosts over two million refugees fleeing conflicts from neighboring countries. He raised concerns that Uganda receives a mere 12.5 percent of the necessary funding, forcing the government to redirect its own domestic resources toward humanitarian aid.

During the assembly, Sheema Municipality MP Dicksons Kateshumbwa called for sweeping reforms in global financial governance and debt sustainability. Kateshumbwa pointed out that economic vulnerability often leaves youth susceptible to recruitment into foreign conflicts, such as the Russia-Ukraine war.

Other leaders, including former Chadian Minister Mohamed Saleh Annadif and Zimbabwean delegate Lt. Gen. Michael Reuben Nyambuya, reinforced the importance of reforming international relations, respecting developing regions, and preserving the central role of the United Nations in maintaining global peace.

Read the full report on the Parliament of Uganda.