[2] It was convened to discuss the Report of the Uganda Relationships Commission, which had been tasked with "consider[ing] the future form of government best suited to Uganda the question of the relationship between the Central Government and the other authorities in Uganda"[3] and had reported in June.
[1] In addition to UK Government Ministers (including the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Ian Macleod), the conference was attended by representatives of the colonial administration (headed by Sir Frederick Crawford, then Governor of Uganda), Baganda, the Democratic Party, the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) and others.
[4] Milton Obote and the honourable A.G. Mehta were the lead representatives for the UPC.
[5] The main issue facing the conference was the status afforded to the different historic kingdoms of Uganda (and in particular the Kingdom of Buganda) in exchange for them recognising the existence of the new state of Uganda, of which they would only be one part.
In addition, the Kingdom of Bunyoro only agreed to participate in the Conference if the disputed status of the "lost counties" was discussed.