Museveni: signed the anti-gay law last month.

Ugandan officials held talks with the European Union yesterday over a controversial anti-gay bill that has left the east African nation facing sanctions and aid cuts.

Last month, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a bill that calls for “repeat homosexuals” to be jailed for life, outlaws any promotion of homosexuality and requires people to report homosexuals.

The European parliament responded by backing sanctions against Uganda, saying that the country had violated human rights and democratic principles.

Ugandan officials said earlier that the country’s foreign minister, Sam Kutesa, would be meeting with the head of the EU delegation in Uganda, Kristian Schmidt.

“It is a dialogue between the European Union and the Uganda government on the anti-homosexuality law,” Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman, Fred Opolot, told AFP. “It is going to be a closed meeting.”

 

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