The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Vincent Biruta, has said that it will take political will to restore relations between Uganda and Rwanda.

But there are many other outstanding issues that must be dealt with, including the continued arrest and harassment of Rwandans in Uganda," Biruta said in a short press conference in which he responded to only two questions from the media.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Vincent Biruta and other officials during a virtual conference with Ugandan side in Kigali on 4 June 2020.

The meeting chaired by Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sam Kutesa, was also attended by Tete Antonio, Minister of External Relations of Angola, and Gilbert Kankonde Malamba, DR Congo's Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Interior, Security and Customary Affairs.

Angola and the DR Congo are facilitators in the ongoing process to normalize the relations between Rwanda and Uganda.