Diplomacy is often referred to as the art by which nations, groups, or individuals conduct their affairs, in ways to safeguard their interests and promote their political, economic and cultural relations.

Cultural diplomacy in particular is a type of soft power that includes the exchange of ideas, information, art, language and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples in order to foster mutual understanding.

H.E. Prof Joyce Kakuramasti Kikafunda, on 24^th April 2024, received H.E Kshenuka Dhireni Senewiratne, High Commissioner to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Republic of India, who had paid a courtesy visit to Uganda High Commission in New Delhi.

Her Excellency Prof. Joyce Kakuramatsi Kikafunda, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uganda designate to the Republic of Singapore presented her Letters of Credence to Her Excellency Madam Halimah Yacob, the President of the Republic of Singapore on 25^th July 2023 at a colorful ceremony held at The Istana (Presidential Palace).

The ceremony started with the customary inspection of the Presidential Guard of Honor and Salute at Istana grounds.

Maj. (Rtd) Awich Pollar Okwir, Director External Affairs in the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Party paid a courtesy call on the High Commission on 5^th May 2024.

The Director was in New Delhi at the invitation of the BJP, the ruling party in India.

Prof. Kikafunda receives Maj. Okwir at the High Commission

Indian business delegation completes successful visit to Uganda.

A 30-member delegation led by Mr. Dammu Ravi, Secretary for Economic Relations in the Ministry of External Affairs and comprising leading Indian companies from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) visited Uganda from 8^th – 9^th April 2024.

H.E Prof. Joyce Kakuramatsi Kikafunda addressed second edition of the Pravasi Gujarati Party on the theme “Escaping Tyranny they Migrated to Opportunity”.

Hon. Kiryowa Kiwanuka, Attorney General of the Republic of Uganda paid a courtesy call on the High Commissioner, H.E Prof. Joyce Kakuramatsi Kikafunda on 6^th February 2024 at Uganda High Commission offices in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi.

After a lapse of nearly two years, including a Bubble Arrangement which it never used, Uganda Airlines has revived interest in flying the Entebbe-Mumbai-Mumbai-Entebbe route. Ms Regina Tibasima, the Commercial Affairs Manager, was in Mumbai in mid-February to meet Indian civil aviation officials at State and National level to sort out details of operational procedures.

Concluding her assignment by a follow-up visit to the States of Telangana and Tamil Nadu in south-eastern India, Ambassador Grace Akello has signed a number of Letters of Intent with prospective investors. This region had in September 2021 hosted a Ugandan Road Show in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, in which Ugandan cabinet ministers had made presentations on the target growth sectors of agriculture and agriculture-led industrialisation, tourism, mining and IT.