Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s speech at the Pan-African Parliament
Pretoria, South Africa – 18th March, 2014
"Now, when this problem [in] Libya started, the African Union, with our chairman — who is here now, this gentleman here — they formed a committee. A committee of a few of us. I think it was six [members]. I was one of them.
The whole of the African Union gave that committee a mandate — to look for a solution for the Libyan problem.
Now, on one occasion, I didn’t go [myself] that time, [but] these excellencies — this one here, Jacob Zuma, and the others — [they went]. I wasn’t there, but my minister was among them.
They [boarded] a plane in [Johannesburg], in his place.
They were going to Libya to mediate.
And they were told by NATO to go back.
Yes! [NATO] said: 'You go back!'
Yes. He is here. If I’m telling you lies, [he can correct me.]
[10 seconds of applause]
I'm not the one who invited him — you are the ones who invited him!
African Presidents, on an African mission, over African soil — we [were] ordered by NATO to go back!
NATO has not allowed them to land in Libya.
Now, we call this in Swahili 'Dharau' — contempt.
This is contempt."