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    "id": 16490,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, let us walk the talk. Three days ago, I had an opportunity to participate in a COMESA meeting. Shockingly, and I want my brother here to deliver this message. We must accept that diplomacy is all about economic diplomacy. Before 1991, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, diplomacy was all about political engagement. However, today the parameters of diplomacy have been redefined. We cannot just limit diplomacy to the traditional thinking of the political representation. Diplomacy today constitutes parliamentary diplomacy. It constitutes, first and foremost, economic diplomacy. Before recently, parliamentarians were considered as unnecessary irritants in the management of the desires of the Republic of Kenya to the extent that their views and activities were only limited to either coming to the Floor of the House, or pursuing issues, which were unique to their constituencies. That dynamic and thinking is retrogressive. It has completely changed. That is why today, you have developed countries such as the United States of America. Even in all the hot spots, some of the diplomats who are sent are parliamentarians, with first -hand knowledge on that particular region. Therefore, one of the things that I want to urge the Government is to make proper use of the rich knowledge of some of the parliamentarians here who are very familiar with some of their international diplomatic engagements."
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