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    "id": 1355074,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1355074/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kamukunji, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Hassan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": "a result of that, the UN Security Council passed a resolution on 2nd October 2023 which approved the deployment of UN troops and police officers to stabilise the situation in Haiti. Hon. Deputy Speaker, every UN resolution which deploys peacekeeping has a police component. Under Chapter 6 and 7 of the UN Charter, it has the powers to deploy peacekeeping forces that includes police component. In this particular case, the Republic of Kenya has been requested by the UN to deploy officers of the National Police Service to the multinational security support mission to Haiti. We are obliged to deploy them to Haiti. We are not an island. We do not live in an isolated world. We are part of the international community. Haiti is not an isolated country. Haitians are of African descent. Kenya, as a member of the African Union (AU), fully supports not only the 55 member countries who are also members of UN, but also all the countries with people of African descent, which includes the entire Caribbean nations, Brazil and many other countries. With the history of Haiti as it is, we have had a major interaction with the people and leadership of Haiti over the years. When the 5th Pan African Conference was held in Manchester in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1945, the late Jomo Kenyatta, who later became our President, attended it. We also had a delegation from Haiti. We had a large number of Caribbean delegations, including C.L.R. James and William Du Bois. We have always been part of the Pan African movement which Haiti, as an important country, is an integral part. This is not the first time we are deploying police officers internationally."
}