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Speech by Amb. (Dr.) Amina Mohamed Cav, Egh, Cabinet SPEECH BY AMB. (DR.) AMINA MOHAMED CAV, EGH, CABINET SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, DURING THE LAUNCH OF BOOK TITLED, ‘KENYA’S FIFTY YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT: FROM KENYATTA TO KENYATTA’, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 28TH NOVEMBER, 2018, 6:00 PM The Chief Guest, Hon. H.E. Kalonzo Musyoka, Chairperson of Moran Publishers, H.E. Hon. Moody Awori, UNDP and UN Resident Coordinator, Mr. Siddharth Chatterjee, DVC Prof Julius Ogego Former Head of Public Service & Secretary to the Cabinet, Amb. Francis Muthaura, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senator Moses Wetangula, Former Foreign Ministers and Principal Secretaries present, Principal Secretary, State Department of Early Learning and Basic Education, Dr. Belio Kipsang, Vice Chancellor, University of Nairobi, Prof. Peter Mbithi, COMESA’s Deputy Secretary General and Editor of this book, Amb. Dr. Kipyego Cheluget, Panelists and Contributors Former and serving Ambassadors, Members of the Diplomatic Corps Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, 1 I am delighted to join you today as we launch this landmark book, titled, ‘Kenya’s Fifty Years of Diplomatic Engagement: From Kenyatta to Kenyatta’ edited by Amb. Dr. Kipyego Cheluget. I thank you for making time to launch this book which is an important contribution towards strengthening our diplomatic service. We are truly honored by your presence, even as we celebrate the documentation of our collective diplomatic history, and prepare the next generation for a world to come. In August, during the launch of the Trailblazers Award Ceremony and launch of Hon Phoebe Asiyo’s memoir at State House encouraged Kenyans to document their stories, His Excellency the President then directed that we at the Ministry create a unit to support that. The unit is up and should be fully operational by end of January 2019. The Ministry of Education supports and encourages such projects, learning from our history to chart our future is a noble endeavor. It acknowledges without shame our mistakes, lays bare our misgivings, celebrates our successes and provides a clear roadmap into the future. As Achebe records in his writings, until the lion learns to write, the hunter will tell his tale of the hunt. We are lions, as seen in our national emblems, and we must tell our stories. Today, we insist on that and tell our tale. Undoubtedly, the compilation of this book has involved painstaking research and extensive interviews spanning more than ten years, beginning in 2007, when the idea of recording Kenya’s diplomacy was first conceived. I thank you, Amb. Cheluget, for your hard work and dedication as well as the sacrifices you have had to make to bring this book into fruition. It is in this same spirit that I congratulate you for having received the 2018 Presidential Alumni Award from Northwestern University for your public service and scholarship. Hongera! I also acknowledge and congratulate all those who have contributed various essays in this volume. The list of contributors includes a very broad spectrum of outstanding foreign affairs practitioners, scholars, and analysts spanning diverse specializations and experiences. I am confident the experiences they share in this book, and the insights they offer, will be a valuable addition to the understanding of our foreign policy. This book will be of tremendous value to the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, practitioners and students of international relations in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa and the world. I also appreciate the support of the Ford Foundation which funded two major events that marked the inception of this book. These events included the first Conference ever of former Ambassadors and High Commissioners, as well as former ministers that generated the impetus for the documenting of our foreign policy. 2 Ladies and Gentlemen, In this book, Amb. Cheluget and co-authors chronicle Kenya’s diplomacy from the early days of Independence to 2013, when Kenya turned fifty. In order to cover all the aspects of Kenya’s diplomacy, the book is divided into three major sections. The first features contributions by the early actors in our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Amb. Francis Muthaura, Amb. Bethuel Kiplagat, Amb. Denis Afande, Amb. Inderjet Singh Bhoi and Amb. Leonard Kibinge. The second part of the book comprises scholarly contributions on certain aspects of our foreign policy by renowned academicians among them Prof. Macharia Munene, Amb. Dr. Paul Kurgat, Prof. Kagwanja and Mr. Stephen Wright. These scholars offer in-depth perspectives on key aspects of our foreign relations. The last part covers profiles of selected former ambassadors and ministers, including Dr. Njoroge Mungai, Hon. Dr Robert Ouko and Hon. Mark Too. In our archives and in the memories of successive generations of ministers, diplomats and officials are many important and interesting experiences, encounters and stories to be told about our foreign policy. This is what this book avails: a record of the practical engagements that have shaped our foreign policy as narrated by our foreign policy actors and scholars. The book is an engaging and refreshing reading that will contribute to a better understanding of the evolution of our foreign service and from which invaluable lessons can be drawn in the conduct of our diplomacy moving into the future. Ladies and Gentlemen, A country focused on playing a frontline role at the global arena must have a large diplomatic footprint. Structurally, this means building an elaborate network of foreign missions and a large number of Foreign Service officers. This imperative partly summarizes the evolution of our Foreign Service over the first fifty years of independence. As a Republic, we have come a mighty long way. As Amb. Muthaura narrates in the opening chapter of the book, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1973 occupied just two floors, on the ground and the first floor of Harambee House - as just a section in the Office of the President. At that time, there were only about eight embassies around the world. In terms of personnel, there were very few Foreign Service officers who worked under immense pressure to meet Foreign Service demands. Mr. Leonard Kibinge has related in the book, Foreign Diplomats ‘were often perplexed to engage one or two Assistant Secretaries attending to a motley of issues touching on politics, protocol, economy, accreditation and diplomatic first arrival privileges. Amb. Denis Afande relates that at this time, each of Kenya’s seven Missions had only two Foreign Service Officers - the Ambassador/High Commissioner and one officer. In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where Amb. Afande opened the Embassy in February 1977, he was alone there 3 for four months before other officers, who included Amb. Chirau Ali Mwakwere, as First Secretary and Amb. Mwabili Kisaka were deployed. Ladies and Gentlemen, From these humble beginnings, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today occupies a whole block, has over 54 missions across the world and a huge pool of professional diplomats. Kenya’s diplomatic footprint is now indeed significant. More than 50 years later, we have also now accumulated a substantial corpus of principles, norms and experiences that form the core of our foreign policy. This book provides not only an insider’s perspective but also an expert’s view of the actual happenings that have shaped our foreign policy to date. In this book, we follow some of our diplomats in offices, boardrooms and conference halls in engagements with leaders, diplomats and officials of various countries, regional groupings and multilateral institutions. These engagements shaped most of the bilateral relations we now have as well as our membership and role in various regional groupings and multilateral institutions; including the East African Cooperation (EAC), the African Union (AU), the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Common Market for East and South Africa (COMESA), the Indian Ocean Rim Association, the Non-Aligned Movement, the South-South Cooperation and the United Nations (UN). Through these engagements, we have in the last fifty years elevated our country’s profile in the international arena. As Senator Moses Wetangula narrates “through our early diplomacy, Kenya managed to be, and remains, the only host in the Third World of UN offices – HABITAT and UNEP, and now UNON. We still carry that pride on behalf of the developing countries”. Ladies and Gentlemen, The book also clarifies and dispels misconceptions about our foreign policy. For example, it has been a constant claim in some quarters that Kenya has never had a foreign policy. As Amb. Francis Muthaura has clearly demonstrated in his account of negotiations to host UNEP in the country, that this was not the case. Hon. Wetangula has reinforced this view by demonstrating that Kenya’s engagement with, for example, EAC countries were an act of conscious and deliberate actions. We of course subsequently launched a comprehensive and written foreign policy in 2013 and diaspora policy in 2014. In his contribution to the volume, Hon. Wetangula narrates how President Jomo Kenyatta loved to drive from Nairobi to the capitals of East Africa, Kampala and Dar-es-Salaam, to develop and cement regional co-operation. “As a little boy in primary school”, Hon. Wetangula writes, “I saw him drive through Bungoma on his way to Kampala. He also 4 occasionally travelled to Addis Ababa, where he personally supervised the construction of the Kenyan Embassy there.” This aspect of purposeful policy direction is further evidenced in how President Kenyatta (Sr) handled the competing ideologies during the cold war. Prof. Macharia Munene narrates that Kenyatta managed the two competing ideologies in what then Foreign Minister, Hon. Munyua Waiyaki, described as a “dynamic compromise.” Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, Kenya’s outstanding role in peace diplomacy also speaks of purposeful diplomacy by a responsible member of the global community of nations. Hon. Wetangula writes that “as early as 1975, the protagonists in the Angolan conflict - Agostino Neto, Jonas Savimbi and Holden Roberto - came to Nakuru to consult with President Jomo Kenyatta on how to get together and find a mechanism for working together for the sake of their country.
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