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Press Release
9 April 2008
Statement on Kenya by Foreign Secretary David Miliband
“'I am dismayed by the latest turn of events in Kenya. We strongly supported
Kofi Annan's efforts which brokered agreement to genuine power-sharing. We
supported his statement last week that the Cabinet should be shared equally with
appropriate portfolio balance. All sides must be prepared to make concessions to
allow this to happen, including President Kibaki's supporters ceding some
powerful portfolios. We urge Kenya's leaders to agree a power-sharing Cabinet
that will serve all Kenyans effectively in order that the country can move
forward and start to deal with the underlying issues that fuelled so much of the
violence in the post-election period.”
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