Editing Foreign relations of Uganda (section)

===Asia===
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|{{flag|Bangladesh}}||25 November 1977||see [[Bangladesh–Uganda relations]]
Diplomatic relations were established on 25 November 1977<ref name=":73">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNniiMJnxRgC&dq=Uganda:+High+commissioner+Bangladesh++...&pg=RA7-PA9 |title=Translations on South and East Asia Volumes 749-757 |publisher=United States. Joint Publications Research Service |year=1977 |pages=9 |access-date=22 January 2024}}</ref>

Bangladesh has an honorary consulate in [[Kampala]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=List of Honorary Consulates/Consulates General of Bangladesh in Different Countries |url=https://mofa.gov.bd/site/page/eecaf1e5-25d1-4fba-a6be-c564bc8cb73c/Honorary-Consul-General-of-Bangladesh-Abroad |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330213610/https://mofa.gov.bd/site/page/eecaf1e5-25d1-4fba-a6be-c564bc8cb73c/Honorary-Consul-General-of-Bangladesh-Abroad |archive-date=2018-03-30}}</ref>
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|{{flag|China}}||18 October 1962||See [[China–Uganda relations]]
Diplomatic relations were established on 18 October 1962<ref name=":54">{{Cite web |title=Uganda |url=http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/focac/183409.htm |access-date=23 May 2023 |website=china.org.cn}}</ref>

* China has an embassy in Kampala.
* Uganda has an embassy in [[Beijing]].
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|{{flag|India}}||9 October 1962||See [[India–Uganda relations]]
Diplomatic relations were established on 9 October 1962 when the Indian Mission in Kampala has been raised to the level of a High Commission<ref name=":50">{{Cite web |title=Annual Report of the Ministry of External Affairs for 1962-63 |url=https://mealib.nic.in/?pdf2489?000 |access-date=23 May 2023 |website=mealib.nic.in |page=36/80}}</ref>

* India has a High Commission in [[Kampala]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mea.gov.in/indian-mission.htm?222/222/0|title=High Commission of India, Kampala, (Concurrently accredited to Burundi) |website=mea.gov.in |publisher=Ministry of External Affairs – Government of India}}</ref>
* Uganda maintains a High Commission in [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.embassypages.com/missions/embassy546/ |title=High Commission of Uganda in New Delhi, India |website=EmbassyPages.com}}</ref>

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|{{flag|Indonesia}}||12 January 1989||
Diplomatic relations were established on 12 January 1989<ref name=":74">{{Cite web |title=KBRI Nairobi - Uganda |url=https://www.kemlu.go.id/nairobi/en/Pages/Uganda.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817062121/http://kemlu.go.id/nairobi/en/Pages/Uganda.aspx |archive-date=August 17, 2017 |access-date=December 31, 2018 |language=id}}</ref>
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|{{Flag|Iran}}
|12 October 1974
|Diplomatic relations were established on 12 October 1974.<ref name=":70">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/State-Dept-cable-1974-229280/mode/1up?q=establish+diplomatic+relations |title=Iran-Uganda establish diplomatic relations |publisher=State Deptment cable 1974-229280 |year=1974 |access-date=23 July 2023}}</ref>
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|{{Flag|Iraq}}
|25 July 1973
|Diplomatic relations were established on 25 July 1973 when the Iraqi Ambassador to Uganda, Mr Karim Shantif, presented his credentials to President Amin.<ref>Africa Research Bulletin. 1973. p. 2935</ref>
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|{{flag|Israel}}||9 October 1962||See [[Israel–Uganda relations]]
Diplomatic relations were established on 9 October 1962.<ref name=":51">{{Cite book |last=Clive Jones, Tore T. Petersen |title=Israel's Clandestine Diplomacies |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2013 |isbn= |pages=138}}</ref> Uganda severance relations with Israel on 30 March 1972.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Benyamin Neuberger |date=October 2009 |title=Israel's Relations with the Third World (1948–2008) |url=https://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/abraham/publications/israel.pdf |access-date=20 September 2023 |page=19}}</ref> Diplomatic relations re-established on 29 July 1994.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Steven Carol |title=From Jerusalem to the Lion of Judah and Beyond Israel'S Foreign Policy in East Africa |publisher=iUniverse |year=2012 |pages=26}}</ref>

Ugandas relations with [[Israel]] remain uneasily strained due to [[Operation Entebbe]], the operation Israel preformed to rescue hostages from the 1976 capturing of a French airliner hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Organization and flown to Entebbe airport.
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|{{flag|Malaysia}}||1995||See [[Malaysia–Uganda relations]]
Diplomatic relations were established in 1995 when has been accredited High Commissioner-Designate of Uganda to Malaysia (resident in New Delhi) Dr. Oboth Okumu.<ref name=":78">{{Cite book |title=Information Malaysia |publisher=Berita Publ. Sdn. Bhd. |year=1995 |pages=45}}</ref>

Malaysia does not yet have a high commission in Kampala,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=277690|title=Uganda Keen on Malaysia To Open Embassy in Kampala|agency=[[Bernama]]|date=August 6, 2007|access-date=February 2, 2014}}</ref> while Uganda has an embassy in [[Kuala Lumpur]] and Uganda high commission in Kuala Lumpur were also accredited to Brunei Darussalam, [[Indonesia]], [[Philippines]], [[Thailand]], [[Vietnam]], [[Laos|Lao PDR]], [[Cambodia]] and [[Myanmar]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kualalumpur.mofa.go.ug/|title=High Commission of the Republic of Uganda, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia|publisher=Uganda High Commission, Kuala Lumpur|access-date=February 2, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kln.gov.my/web/guest/foreign-mission-in-malaysia1?p_p_id=foreginmission_WAR_foreginmission5231&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_foreginmission_WAR_foreginmission5231_struts_action=%2Fforeginmission%2Fforeignmission_action&_foreginmission_WAR_foreginmission5231_recId=633&_foreginmission_WAR_foreginmission5231_CMD=detail|title=DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR MISSION|publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia]]|access-date=February 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218215337/http://www.kln.gov.my/web/guest/foreign-mission-in-malaysia1?p_p_id=foreginmission_WAR_foreginmission5231&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_foreginmission_WAR_foreginmission5231_struts_action=%2Fforeginmission%2Fforeignmission_action&_foreginmission_WAR_foreginmission5231_recId=633&_foreginmission_WAR_foreginmission5231_CMD=detail|archive-date=February 18, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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|{{flag|Maldives}}||30 November 1993||
*Diplomatic relations were established on 30 November 1993<ref name=":76">{{Cite web |date= November 30, 1993|title=Diplomatic Relations Between Maldives and Uganda as of 30 Nov. 1993 |url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1627612?ln=en |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=United Nations Digital Library}}</ref>
*Both countries are full members of [[Commonwealth of Nations]].

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|{{flag|Nepal}}||12 June 2017||
*Diplomatic relations were established on 12 June 2017.<ref name=":82">{{Cite web |title=Diplomatic Relations |url=https://mofa.gov.np/foreign-policy/diplomatic-relations/ |access-date=15 May 2023 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nepal}}</ref>
*Both countries are [[Landlocked developing countries]].
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|{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|1 August 1965
|Diplomatic relations were established on 1 August 1965<ref name=":62">{{Cite book |title=Pakistan News Digest - Volumes 13-15 |publisher=Principal Information Officer, Press Information Department |year=1965 |pages=3}}</ref>
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|{{Flag|Palestine}}
|15 February 1989
|Diplomatic relations were established on 15 February 1989 when the PLO bureau in Kampala was upgraded to the status of an embassy.<ref name=":75">{{Cite book |title=African Defence Journal Issues 101-112 |publisher=The Journal |year=1989 |pages=17}}</ref>
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|{{flag|South Korea}}||26 March 1963||

* Establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Republic of Uganda was on March 26, 1963<ref name=":56">{{Cite web |title=Uganda |url=https://www.mofa.go.kr/eng/nation/m_4902/view.do?seq=180 |access-date=27 January 2024 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Korea}}</ref>
* South Korea has an embassy in Kampala, which was reopened in 2011.<ref name="embkor">{{cite web |author=Ambassador Park Sung-soo |title=Ambassador's message |publisher=Embassy of the Republic of [South] Korea in Uganda |url=https://overseas.mofa.go.kr/ug-en/wpge/m_10287/contents.do |accessdate=2022-01-22 |archive-date=2022-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122035839/https://overseas.mofa.go.kr/ug-en/wpge/m_10287/contents.do |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|{{flag|Turkey}}||18 September 1969||See [[Turkey–Uganda relations]]
Diplomatic relations were established on 18 September 1969<ref>Africa Research Bulletin. 1969. p. 1537</ref>
* [[Uganda]] has an embassy in [[Ankara]].<ref name="auto8">{{Cite web |title=Turkey-Uganda Relations |publisher=Republic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs |url=http://www.mfa.gov.tr/turkey_uganda-relations.en.mfa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120232255/http://www.mfa.gov.tr/turkey_uganda-relations.en.mfa |archive-date=2020-11-20}}</ref>
*Turkey has an embassy in [[Kampala]].<ref name="auto8" />
*Trade volume between the two countries was US$40 million in 2018.<ref name="auto8" />
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|{{flag|Vietnam}}||9 February 1973||
*Diplomatic relations were established on 9 February 1973.<ref name=":67">{{Cite web |title=List of countries which maintains diplomatic relations with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (as April 2010) |url=https://www.mofa.gov.vn/en/cn_vakv/ |access-date=20 September 2023 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs Viet Nam}}</ref>
* Vietnam is accredited to Uganda, through its embassy in [[Dar es Salaam]], [[Tanzania]]. Vietnam also maintains an honorary consulate in Kampala.<ref>{{cite news |title=Uganda keen on boosting ties with Vietnam |url=https://en.vietnamplus.vn/uganda-keen-on-boosting-ties-with-vietnam/117451.vnp |access-date=30 August 2022 |agency=[[Vietnam News Agency]]}}</ref>
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|{{Flag|Yemen}}
|17 December 1973
|Diplomatic relations were established on 17 December 1973 and Yemen Arab Republic appointed Ahmad al Moalemi as the first ambassador to Uganda.<ref name=":69">{{Cite book |title=Record of the Arab World: Yearbook of Arab and Israeli Politics |publisher=Research and Publishing House |year=1973 |pages=292}}</ref>
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