Russia's foreign minister said his country supports reforming the UN Security Council to give a more powerful role to developing nations, including African countries.
"We confirmed our positions when it comes to the reforming of the UN Security Council," Lavrov said. "The main problem here is the underrepresentation in the Security Council of developing states and the only solution to this problem is bigger representation of Asian, African and Latin American countries."
Uganda is one of 25 African nations that abstained or didn't vote in the UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. Many nations on the continent of 1.3 billion people have long-standing ties with Moscow, dating back to the Cold War when the Soviet Union supported their anti-colonial struggles.
At the start of the war in Ukraine, Museveni and his son, Ugandan infantry commander Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, made public comments widely seen as sympathetic toward Russia. Museveni earlier this year said reforms would stop what he described as "mistakes" such as the removal from power of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, who ruled for nearly 42 years before he was ousted by an uprising in 2011 and later was captured and killed.
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