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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance. I rise to support this very important Motion that is before us; the adoption of this Report by our delegation at the 50th ACP-EU Conference. It is important that we put things into perspective. We are living in very interesting times; that on many occasions, it is not considered in this country to be a noble thing to sometimes travel to some of these conferences and give our input and get to learn and interact with leaders and legislators from other parts of the world. This has come at a time when in the course of today, there was a big discussion online about the value that some of these excursions; benchmarking trips or conferences such as this one, whose Motion for adoption of this Report we are deliberating. Many things have been said on the gains or otherwise, of these activities. It will be important for the country to note that many are the times when Members of Parliament or other leaders engage in these kinds of collaborations and partnerships. It is the direction the world is moving. We are coming from a history where the era of strongmen is long gone and not with us anymore. There were days when if you picked the continent of Africa, three, four or five men - because there were no women on that high table - they would sit and resolve almost all the challenges that the continent was facing. However, the truth as it is right now is that in many of the countries the world over, this era of strongmen and women who would rule an entire region with an iron fist is no more. Therefore, if you want to deliberate on issues that are facing a particular continent, region or people, you will sit at a table and deliberate and hope to agree. It is in conferences like this particular one that many of the global challenges that we continue to face as a people – either as individual countries, the region we come from, the continent or globally – are discussed at an open forum, where we get to educate and understand each other. The way the interactions are structured is such that it is a laid-back approach to these issues. This is because you get to sit down with people who come from different parts of the world, understand each other and have a view of things from the other person’s point of view. This is very different from how you get to interact with issues by reading online or in the news. For example, just getting to understand what is happening, like where certain regions are struggling with xenophobic attacks or where others are with bulging with a well-educated youth population that has nothing useful to do. However, when you interact and engage with leaders from those regions, some of these issues simply get sorted out, even by some of the resolutions that are proposed and adopted in some of these conferences. Therefore, it goes without saying – having read through the report scrutinizing some of the topics that this delegation got to consider during their time in Brussels – that it is a great and very enriching report for any legislator who wants to have an impact in our society, both to the African, Caribbean, Pan-African and the European regions. For example, when they speak about the demographic growth, how can we forge collaborations between the aging European population vis-a-vis the young bulging and well-educated African population? This is the big debate that exists globally. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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