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    "id": 1085985,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maoka Maore",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maore Maoka",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, at the outset, I am a member of the Committee and I also support the contents enumerated in the Chairman's presentation and also in the Bill. Many people will remember that when you are picked as a diplomat, there are those insinuations that you do not need training. However, if there is a delicate job that you really need training, it is that of a diplomat. The proposal that there is a Foreign Service Academy in the Bill is a milestone. We need to support it and ensure that the curriculum being taught there and the contents of the service are enumerated. As you have heard in modern diplomacy - unlike the olden days where you just went there and became a party person for cocktails and other events - we have issues to do with trade and commerce. The world over, modern diplomats are the main trade ministers or ambassadors. Moreover, on top of that, Kenya has been unique for many years for the last nearly 30 years. We have had our soldiers serving in UN Missions. Those people have actually been serving as our diplomats even though the commander of the team has the rank of a General; they are usually trained in very serious diplomacy. In essence, the entire team that happens to participate in those foreign missions happen to be our diplomats. If we could have the issue of recruitment addressed... I remember when we had the last batch of diplomats, and several of them were retired public servants. I did hear some quarters The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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