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STATEMENT by Amb.Monica Juma, Dphil, CBS Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Kenya STATEMENT by Amb.Monica Juma, DPhil, CBS Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Kenya during the 5th Diplomatic Briefing Tuesday, 10th September 2019 15:00hrs Hotel Radisson Blu Nairobi, Kenya 1 Excellencies; Ambassadors and High Commissioners; Members of the Diplomatic Corps; Colleagues from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ladies and Gentlemen. 1. Good afternoon! I am delighted to welcome you to the 5th Briefing of the Cabinet Secretary to the Diplomatic Corps. I wish to begin by thanking you for honouring my invitation for this briefing despite the short notice, especially as the summer break ends when you would be finalizing your work plans. 2. These briefings are intended as a space for foreign policy engagements – elaborating on the place of Kenya in the world today. It is also an opportunity for me to touch base with you all and to share on the latest developments as we continue with our diplomatic engagement at various levels. This is in line with my commitment to keep the diplomatic community updated on Kenya’s diplomatic activities as part of articulating the direction of our foreign policy, as advanced through a theme that is predominant at a particular time of the year. STRENGHTENING BILATERAL RELATIONS 3. During these past two quarters, 27 resident and non-resident envoys presented credentials to H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the 2 Republic of Ken ya, I wish to recognize them through the friendly countries they represent, which are: - H.E Gobopang Duke Lefhoko, High Commissioner of Republic of Botswana; H.E Kyle Carter, Ambassador of the USA; H.E Mrs Maria Alejandra Guerra, Ambassador of the Republic of Chile; H.E Meles Alem Tekea, Ambassador of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; H.E. Jong Tong Hak, Ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; H.E. Mrs Unnur Orradottir Ramette of Iceland; H.E Wu Peng, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China; H.E Alex G. Chua, Ambassador of the Republic of Philippines; H.E Archbishop Hubertus Matheus Maria Van Megen, Ambassador of the Holy See; H.E Mrs. Angela Comfort, High Commissioner of Jamaica; H.E Jesus Manzanilla Puppo, Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; H.E Ms. Fionnuala Quinlan, Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland; H.E. Ali Halabi, Ambassador of Lebanon; H.E Dr. Alejandro Garofali, Ambassador of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay; 3 H.E Zu rab Dvalisvhili, Ambassador of the Republic of Georgia; H.E. Ryoichii Horie, Ambassador of Japan; H.E Dimitrios Zavoritis, Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic of Greece; H.E Winpeg Moyo, High Commissioner of Republic of Zimbabwe; H.E Saqlain Syedah, High Commissioner of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; H.E Martin Klepetko, Ambassador of the Czech Republic; H.E Oded Joseph, Ambassador of the State of Israel; H.E. Jean Bosco Barege, Ambassador of the Republic of Burundi; H.E Jane Marriott, High Commission of the United Kingdom; H.E. Simon Mordue, Ambassador of the European Union Delegation; H.E Toba Sebade, Ambassador of Togo; H.E Sulyaman Alieu Jack, Ambassador of the Republic of Gambia, and; H.E Hermann Immongault, Ambassador of the Republic of Gabon. I am also delighted that the UN family is now in place and wish to congratulate Ms. Inger Anderson, Executive Director UNEP; Mr. Walid Badawi, UNDP Country Representative; Ms. Fathiaa 4 Abdalla, UN HCR, Resident Representative and Ms. Maniza Sultana Zaman, UNICEF Country Representative, for taking up your stations in Nairobi. 4. In this regard, it is my singular pleasure to congratulate each and every one of the new and not so new envoys and wish you a productive tour of duty. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs remains ready to facilitate all efforts and activities towards enhancing our bilateral relations. The strengthening of bilateral relations is critical to strengthening cooperation at the regional and global levels. This is particularly key in view of the need to serve humanity at a time, that is defined by some analysts, as characterized by great disruptions: a time of growing challenge to cooperative solidarity, a time of growing narrow nationalisms, a period when multilateralism is under threat but more fundamentally a time when the world is faced with a range of emerging threats that would ironically threaten any one individual country, and whose response demands collective action. I also hope that you will find in Kenya life-long and useful friendships, which will underpin and help strengthen the official relations between our governments and people. As we say in Swahili, Karibu Kenya na Karibu sana! 5. We are delighted that Nairobi continues to claim its place as a diplomatic capital. I welcome the growing number of resident missions in Kenya and pledge to continue improving the environment 5 for growing this diplomatic family. In this regard, I wish to take this early opportunity to introduce our Heads of Political Directorates and Department, before I proceed: a) Political & Diplomatic Secretary, Ambassador Tom Amolo; i. Deputy Political & Diplomatic Secretary, Amb. Michael Kiboino; b) Protocol – i. Chief of Protocol in charge of Government Protocol, Amb. Tabu Irina; ii. Office of the Ambassador in charge of Privileges and Immunities, Amb. Samuel Gitonga; c) Africa and AU, Amb. John Tipis; d) EAC, Amb. Nyambura Kamau; e) America’s, Ms. Immaculate Wambua; f) Middle East, Amb. Arthur Andambi; g) Asia and Austral-Asia & Pacific Islands, Mr. Lindsay Kiptiness; h) Europe and the Commonwealth, Amb. Simon Nabukwesi; i) Diaspora & Consular Affairs, Amb. Michael Oyugi; j) Office of the Great Lakes Region, Amb. Mohamed Mahat; k) Peace and Security, Mr. John Kilonzi; i. The Red Sea and Indian Ocean Realm, Mr. Timothy Kaluma l) UN & Multilateral Affairs, Amb. Salim Salim; m) Economic & Commercial Diplomacy, Amb. Johnson Weru; n) Liaison and Parliamentary Diplomacy, Amb. Chege Gathoga; 6 o) Cultural Diplo macy, Amb. Anne Wanjohi; p) Directorate of Conferences & Events, Amb. Ben Ogutu; q) Legal and Host Country Affairs; Ms. Stella Munyi; i. Deputy, Legal Matters, Mrs. Juliet Gicheru; ii. Deputy, Host Country Affairs, Mr. Joseph Vungo; iii. Deputy, Office of the Registrar of Treaties, Mr. James Waweru; r) Foreign Service Academy, Amb. Galma Boru; and, s) Chef de Cabinet, Amb. Moi Lemoshira. 6. I have confidence that the Directors will serve diligently and thus be of assistance to your respective Missions. 7. On our part, and in the light of the policy to continue growing and strengthening our bilateral relations we have just finalized the preparation for deployment of 18 Ambassadors/High Commissioners to serve in our Missions abroad and in, United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Ghana, Switzerland, Germany, Senegal, Djibouti, Ireland, United States of America, Zambia, Spain, Italy, South Korea, Sweden and to the United Nations Office in Vienna and UN- Habitat Nairobi, Consulate-General to Los Angeles, and Consulate-General to Dubai. 7 FRAMING OUR BILATERAL RELATIONS 8. Emanating from the clear policy framework and prioritization of the Big Four Agenda and their enablers, we have drilled down to bankable projects and programmes. This means engagement with each and every partner should lend itself to easy take off. In this regard, I urge each one of you to appeal to your governments and particularly the private sector to take advantage of not only the prioritization, but also the efforts to make Kenya and investment destination of choice. Today our ease of doing business continues to improve faster than any other country, our macro-economic framework continues to be robust, and the government continues to improve security, in spite of our challenging neighbourhood. Our investments continue to give us the advantage of being a gateway to the East, Central, Southern and Horn of Africa region. For instance, the first three berths of the LAPPSET Corridor will be commissioned before the end of this year. This gives life to one of the most critical infrastructure corridors on the African continent – that will open up not only the unexploited northern part of the country but also create links to Ethiopia, South Sudan, and hopefully onto CAR, DRC and through to the Atlantic Ocean – in essence creating a land bridge across Africa, between the Indian and Atlantic oceans. 9. My message to you is that Kenya continues to improve itself for business – do take advantage of this. 8 10. We have also, si nce the beginning of the year focused attention on high level visits and engagements across the world. In Africa we have made visits to and received high level delegations from Southern Africa; North Africa, Central Africa (DRC, Congo B,) within the region (Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan); in the Middle East; Europe (France, UK,); in Asia (Japan, China); the Americas (USA for the bilateral strategic dialogue, Canada for Women Deliver and historically the first Caribbean mission at State level- that saw H.E. the President visit Jamaica and Barbados where he had the opportunity to engage with CARICOM Member States. 11. The top leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs continue to engage with our friends and partners at all levels from all over the globe. I have had the honour to visit and engage with your Ministers in over 15 capitals and I have in turn received a similar number of Ministers and high level representatives from around the world. Similarly, the Chief Administrative Secretary has engaged 8 of his counterparts in Nairobi and abroad. While the Principal Secretary continues to engage with many of you on a regular basis, he has also touched a number of capitals in Europe and made several visits to the United Nations office in New York. REGIONAL DYNAMICS 12. When I addressed you in December 2018, I defined last year as the year of rapprochement.
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