Establishing direct flights between Kenya and the U.S. will be on the agenda during Barack Obama’s visit, but gay rights are “definitely not on our agenda at all,” Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said Tuesday, according to BusinessDayLive.

The lack of a direct-flight link between the U.S. and Kenya is hurting business and tourism, Kenyatta said at a news conference.

He said he hoped Obama’s visit would help Kenya get the U.S. regulatory status it needs for direct flights. Security issues at Nairobi’s main airport have been cited as the reason the U.S. was reluctant in the past to allow direct flights to Kenya.

Kenyatta dismissed gay rights as a “nonissue to the people of this country, and it is definitely not on our agenda at all,” BusinessDayLive reported. “We as a country, as a continent, are faced with much more serious issues, which we would want to engage the U.S. and all our partners with.”

In conservative Christian and Muslim countries in Africa, homophobia wins votes, TheNation reports. Homophobia is on the rise across much of Africa, where homosexuality is illegal in many countries, including Kenya.

Obama’s Kenya visit was delayed by Kenyatta’s indictment by the International Criminal Court, according to BusinessdayLive. Charges were dropped in 2014 against Kenyatta linking him to post-election violence in 2007-2008.

However Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto is still on trial at the ICC in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.

Ruto has has been vocal against homosexuality, telling churchgoers earlier in July it was “against the plan” of God.

“We have heard that in the U.S. they have allowed gay relations and other dirty things,” Ruto said, according to the Daily Nation newspaper, BusinessDayLive reports.

Same-sex marriage became legal in the U.S. in June, 2015. It has been legal in South Africa since 2006.

Obama’s visit will be his fourth to Africa since becoming U.S. president in 2008, but his first to Kenya.