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    "id": 836867,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kamukunji, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": "Finally, I was able to lead the delegation to Canada. Canada is another country which is very effective in international relations. It is now re-engaging with Africa and particularly Kenya. Our President has recently been invited there for the G-8 meeting. Canada is at the moment engaged as a partner and a co-host of the Blue Economy Summit Conference which will be held here in Nairobi next month. One of the things we felt about Canada was lack of engagement at a higher level in the areas of tourism and trade. We also felt in many of these embassies, there was shortage of staff in critical areas where we will benefit more in terms of promoting our foreign policy and particularly our economic diplomacy. So, we very much recommend that we do that. Finally on Canada, it is the second largest country in the world. Our embassy is in Ottawa which is on the eastern side of the country. The rest of Canada is out there, there is the big city of Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary where many Kenyans are. We therefore need to expand consular services to those areas so that our embassy can be more effective in terms of promoting relations in the Diaspora as well as in trade and tourism."
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