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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you very much. Of the many things you taught me at the University of Nairobi was Public International Law, more so, Law of the Sea. Therefore, I understand the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. You taught us that it was ratified in 1982. The sea territories are delimited in a particular way. Twenty nautical miles from the shoreline is territorial sea. That part of the sea called the territorial sea is treated as part of the State from which the sea moves. The contiguous zone is after that, 24 nautical miles from the territorial sea. It is called so because it is a zone to which a territorial State is entitled for its exclusive war engagements if there was war. Two hundred nautical miles from the shoreline of a territorial State into the sea is the EEZ. The EEZ means much for economic exploitation. I am emphasising this because we just came from the Blue Economy Madaraka Day celebration where you get people largely talking about fish and fish stock. The EEZ is the entitlement of a territorial State bordering a sea for purposes of exclusive economic exploitation. Whether it is fish stock or marine life, whether it is minerals prospected and discovered under those waters, they exclusively belong to the State. I am emphasising that to make a point. When you go deep into 200 nautical miles and if you put together that water area, I can tell you it means nearly a third of the territorial boundary of Kenya is within the sea. That is for purposes of the EEZ. The continental shelf is under the EEZ. The continental shelf entitlement of a territorial State also goes up to 200 nautical miles. However, it can extend up to 350 nautical miles with the agreement of the world bodies. For purposes of the continental shelf, let me confirm to the House that we have got the permission of the relevant committee and international body. Now we stretch up to 350 nautical miles. That means anything falling within the continental shelf 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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