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    "id": 844040,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/844040/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "For those who had a chance to read the last report which came early this year, you saw that the parties to the Forum could not even agree on choosing the secretary-general. I have just looked at the Report. It goes ahead to say that this was discussed and the Secretary-General in place reported that there was a debate and they reached a consensus as to how to pick the Secretary-General who they could not agree on last time during the Forum. It means that there was an impasse about the secretary-general. It has been reported that the Executive Committee met in Kinshasa in DRC on 31st January, 2018. They reached a consensus that the next two terms of the secretary- general be given to Uganda and the Central Africa Republic respectively, each to serve for a single term of three years and review of the statutes and rules of the Forum be deferred to a later date. If we cannot even agree on a secretary-general and have good rules and statutes that can guide this Forum for it to bear the fruits that we need--- I am not saying this is not an important forum. It is a forum that talks about the livelihoods, democracy, good governance and peace and security for our region, which are the pillars for development in our region. In the Forum, they could not agree on who the secretary-general should be and we had an impasse. They had to reach a consensus that one serves for three years and then the other one for three years. That shows we are not serious as parties to the same."
}