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    "id": 94425,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Minister and his team. I would like to say that this Ministry of East African Community is not a product of the coalition arrangement, which is in place right now. It is a Ministry that has been there for quite some time. It is a Ministry that is even envisaged under the new constitutional dispensation. Having seen the rebirth, re-energisation and invigoration of the East African Community, we are duty bound, as a nation, to benefit from the enormous economic opportunities within the East African Community. The work of the Ministry of East African Community is not only economic diplomacy and regional integration--- In this era economic diplomacy remains an integral and the most important aspect of any region, or any economy for that matter. We have security diplomacy, parliamentary diplomacy, peace diplomacy and cultural diplomacy. What made the former East African Community to disintegrate was not lack of economic interest. It was because of political squabbles. The existing political ideologies at that particular time, and specifically since those things do not exist now--- We do not have the Berlin Wall in existence; we do not have the old two conflicting ideological problems--- Kenya, because of being a very important regional, humanitarian and infrastructural hub, if we do not optimize this opportunity for economic gains we will not only have failed this generation, but will also have permanently let down the people of the Republic of Kenya."
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