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State Attorney, Ministry of Justice in Uganda (1967)
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Lecturer in Law at Nsamizi Law School (1968)
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Head of Department of Law, Law Development Centre
(1969-1970)
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Appointed Chief Magistrate, Buganda Rd Law Courts
(1973)
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Appointed
Chief Magistrate, Mbarara (1974)
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Appointed High Court Judge (late 1974-1979)
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Member of National Consultative Council (Interim
Parliament of Uganda) (early 1979-1980) rising to be its Chairman in
1980
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Member of Parliament, Mbarara West Constituency and
Speaker of National Assembly (December 1980 -1985)
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President of EEC/ACP Joint Assembly (1981-83). During
that period, I led the Joint EEC/ACP Fact-Finding Mission of Countries
of Southern Africa affected by the Apartheid Regime, i.e., Angola,
Mozambique, Tanzania, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Member of National Resistance Council ( Parliament of
Uganda) representing Rwampara Constituency and Chairman, Committee of
Legal & Security Affairs of the Council ( 1989-1996)
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Legal Practitioner with the firm of Kirenga &
Butagira Advocates in Kampala (1996-1997)
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Appointed Ambassador of Uganda to Ethiopia and
Permanent Representative to the OAU (1998)
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Transferred to Nairobi as Uganda High Commissioner
and Permanent Representative to United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
and United Nations (HABITAT) (1999)
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Led Uganda Team that negotiated the Treaty
establishing East African Community (1999)
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One of the Mediators in IGAD-sponsored Sudanese Peace
Talks (2000-2003)
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Appointed Uganda’s Permanent Representative to the
United Nations, New York (June, 2003)
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Chairman, Third Committee of United Nations General
Assembly 60th Session
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Vice-President, General Assembly of UN, 61st
Session
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Represented Uganda on Security Council of UN 2009
(January)
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Chairman, Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) at
UN, New York, 2008-2009
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Chaired African Group meetings at the United Nations
at a time when proposals by the Secretary-General to restructure the
Office of the Special Advisor for Africa, had generated a lot of
controversy. I helped bridge the gap between the two sides by proposing
a forward-looking compromise.
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June 2009 appointed Uganda’s Ambassador to the
Federal Republic of Germany and Uganda’s Permanent Representative to
United Nations Organizations, Vienna.