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    "content": "Under foreign affairs, we have foreign missions, diplomatic consulates, international boundaries, international relations, agreements, treaties and conventions. I would have added there international trade, because that is how it is within our Constitution. So, I would urge hon. Keynan that we do not tamper with this Schedule. Let us also wait for the new Government to come into place. Let them organise the Government in terms of the number of Ministries, which will also guide some work on these Committees to mirror the new Cabinet portfolios, so that the Committees can at least mirror the Government. It is also good for working order in terms of which Ministry reports to which Committee. Ministries will not be coming to this House. It will be the Committees which will be bringing business to the House. If we mix security issues with foreign affairs issues, we will be missing the point. We are trying to mirror the current Committee that the hon. Member chairs to bring it into the new dispensation yet it has been overtaken by the passage of the new Constitution, which clearly takes away matters of security even away from the Government. The National Police Service is independent and the national defence council are independent of the Government of the day. So, let us not mix them with foreign affairs, which is part of Government."
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