I also would like to express my sincerest gratitude to the Swiss National Bank for arranging this valuable occasion. At present, the Bank of Japan is pursuing powerful monetary easing under the framework of quantitative and qualitative monetary easing (QQE), with a view to achieving the price stability target of 2 percent.
To mark the celebrations, we have planned a number of activities, including: the Charity walk, where H.E the Vice President was the Chief walker, organized by the Bank of Uganda staff to raise funds to support Mulago hospital; Essay competition for primary schools about the features on the Ugandan currencies and their importance to the economy, aimed at increasing awareness among the young generation about Bank of Uganda; the public exhibition to run for one week; and a symposium on the theme: "Central Banking in a Globalizing Environment: Challenges and Way Forward for Bank of Uganda' to be addressed by eminent scholars like Professor Ali Mazrui and many others.