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    "id": 801583,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is a very important platform and I am happy that the Speaker was kind enough to send Sen. Shiyonga to the IPU platform. I was concerned at the beginning of this session because we were represented by nominated Sen. Mukite in the forum for women. I have acted as a Rapporteur from Kenya for the 162 Parliaments on gender parity issues and I can confirm that the input and quality of legislators you find at the IPU is beyond question. Madam Temporary Speaker, this question that was being addressed in the programme in the United Nations (UN) in New York is really boring. There is the issue in Manama and, in particular Reijer, where over 600,000 people have been moved in the whole of Europe because of the war in Syria. The realisation by the world of the problems that we have had in Kenya for the last several years because of the war in Somalia has now come to pass. When we were asking all these nations to support us because of the two camps that we have in Dadaab and Kakuma, people thought it was a joke. But when they started closing boundaries in Europe because of immigrants, the influx was unbelievable. It became a humanitarian crisis when children were washed ashore from the sea and families were destroyed. The orders that are being given by the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, to the effect that people should go back to their countries like Mexico, is splitting families. This question has come because the world did not realise that in any situation where there is a war – whether you are deposing Muammar Gaddafi, whether you are unhappy with Saddam Hussein or whether you are unhappy with Bashar al Assad – the resultant crisis is immigration. This immigration has caused immeasurable problems all over Europe and I am glad that it became a topic for concern for the IPU Parliament. I participated in a session where one MP from Maldives and another one from Bolivia were exiled by their own governments and attacked in Parliament. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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