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"content": "The issues and agenda covered by the Report are very relevant to our country as well as to the entire world as a whole. They range from issues of human rights, which are obviously very relevant. In our case, the country appears much divided on issues of human rights. We had the recent visit by Prof. Alston from the United Nations, who came and made a report and an assessment about the country. Unfortunately, as a country, we cannot take a common position. It is very unfortunate that we have actually sent a team that will take two parallel positions. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenya would, indeed, have been better off without any representation rather than sending a team that we will be speaking in different terms. It is a big challenge to the two principals. The moment we talk about a coalition Government, it does not mean effectively splitting the country when we go out there. If we do not have the maturity to resolve or compromise on a position when we go outside this country, then we cannot, really, say that the Grand Coalition Government is taking a leading role. It is actually leading a splitting role for this country. Touching on matters of human rights, it is also true that the way some of these institutions handle human rights issues, especially the ones outside the country, is not necessarily applicable to a country like Kenya. I am not talking about us having any lesser standards but the circumstances obtaining in our countries are very different. If you talk about the situation in some developed countries, the threats to law and order are so minimal that it is even possible to uphold the rule of law, uphold human rights, uphold dignity, et cetera . Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, coming to third world countries, which have suffered a lot of economic deprivation, there is a lot of poverty. There are social causes leading to these threats to the rule of law. Therefore, when we talk of human rights or even enhancement of human rights, the resources available on the part of the Government are certainly very inadequate. I have in mind the case of organised crimes in Central Kenya, for instance, where we have actually seen that as much as we may not want to attribute poverty levels to the emergence of these crimes, at the same time, it is a strong motivating fact that the unemployment levels in this country are acutely high. This makes it acutely imperative that in order to talk about human rights and justice, you must, first and foremost, focus on the issues of unemployment, poverty and so on. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, therefore, good as some of these resolutions are, even at the international level, it is very important that there is emphasis on the peculiar situations obtaining in generally under-developed countries such as Kenya. Another issue that has been clearly deliberated on is that of nuclear proliferation and disarmament. My view is that the world faces a big threat of a nuclear war. As a country, we are not directly involved in this threat. Nonetheless, we will be in the line of fire, if there is proliferation of a nuclear warfare. However, again, this threat is not so much from nuclear armament as it is from the relationship between countries. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have in mind the fact that in the modern so-called âcivilised worldâ today, at the level of state inter-relation, the diplomacy of âthe mighty take everythingâ at the international level still prevails. When we talk about things like rights of nations and human rights of other countries, they are easily relegated when it comes to the interests of the mightier ones."
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