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    "id": 844010,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/844010/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "There are regional organisations that are trying to ensure that the principles enunciated by the United Nations and other regional conventions are fully complied with and Parliament should be in the forefront in trying to convince states to be obedient and loyal to some of these conventions. I can tell you, as a matter of fact, that in the few meetings that I have been attending, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) or the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as organisations are playing a more fundamental role in bringing peace and security in those areas than our own regional organisations in the Great Lakes Region. Part of it has been because of the involvement of the parliamentarians so that when there is a problem in any country, especially in relation to human rights including elections, there are interventions in the appropriate cases but even if there is no intervention of some sort, including diplomatic, there is an environment for people to talk openly. The same thing is not happening in our region. Look at what is happening in Uganda, for example, to a Member of Parliament who belongs to this organisation. You will find parliaments in Europe and the USA talk about this but our own Parliaments--- I am also criticising myself. Parliamentarians elected in this region can go through those kinds of experiences and there is not a word from any parliament in the region or from parliamentarians in an organised and formal kind of a discourse in which people share the principles."
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