The minister noted that Uganda is the current chair of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, and that Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni is leading a mediation effort for DR Congo.
Rugunda said allegations in the report were an attempt to present Uganda as “a traitorous nation, after the president of the country has accepted the responsibility to mediate.”
Rugunda said the allegations risk undermining efforts to bring peace to DR Congo.
“I don’t think relations in the Great Lakes region have been better in a very long time,” Rugunda said, noting that the group had held four summits in four months with the presence of DR Congo’s President Joseph Kabila and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame.
The UN report could “derail the region” as it strives for a political solution to the conflict in eastern DR Congo, he added.
The UN Security Council is due to discuss the international force in Somalia on Wednesday. Uganda provides more than a third of the 17,000 troops in the African Union-led mission there, which is propping up a new government.
The Security Council has already passed a statement threatening sanctions against M23 leaders and those outside the country who support them.
Rugunda said the council statement was “more or less endorsing” the group of experts, “so it lent a lot of weight to a report that was inaccurate.”
“We would like to be reassured that really this report is not supported by the Security Council, by the UN system. Because we felt stabbed in the back.”
A western official said Uganda made “strong complaints” about the UN report but that he expected the country to keep its troops in UN missions.
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