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    "id": 246388,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/246388/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Tuju",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 345,
        "legal_name": "Raphael Tuju",
        "slug": "raphael-tuju"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is aware of reported cases in which the authorities of the United Kingdom and the United States of America have denied some prominent Kenyan nationals entry into their respective countries. The Ministry normally facilitates applications for visas by officials travelling abroad on official business through established diplomatic channels, but foreign missions have the right to issue or not to issue the entry visas. (b) The Ministry is not aware that many other prominent Kenyans including Ministers and Members of Parliament, are being targeted for a possible ban to enter the United Kingdom or the United States of America. No foreign mission in Nairobi has intimated such decisions to target any Kenyans for the travel ban, to the Ministry. However, the sovereign authorities of the two countries 1428 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES June 20, 2006 may take decisions and actions that they deem best fitted for their respective national interests, including issuing of travel bans to non-nationals. (c) No reasons are given for the denials of visas. It is in line with international practice that the denial of entry for non-nationals is the sovereign right of all States. For this reason, no State is entitled to receive any justification for such denial. (d) The decision of the two governments to ban some Kenyans from visiting their respective countries has no implications on Kenya's sovereignty for the reasons given above. Kenya is also at liberty to reciprocate if any such decision is deemed to be prejudicial."
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