{"id":273,"date":"2008-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/?p=273"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T21:00:00","slug":"hazy-future-for-mediation-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2008\/05\/hazy-future-for-mediation-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazy future for mediation talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, May 23 &#8211; Negotiators at the mediation talks on Friday said they would henceforth only engage with the Oluyemi Adeniji-led panel on a need-to-need basis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cabinet Minister Martha Karua said the ministerial team had not disengaged from the mediation process but needed to tackle remaining items from a &lsquo;Kenyan perspective&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our continued engagement is necessary but not on a daily basis because to cover those issues we have to consult with Kenyans and with Parliament,&rdquo; she told reporters outside Serena Hotel, the talks&rsquo; hub.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi who chaired the Friday session together with Adeniji&rsquo;s representatives took the opportunity to make an announcement that the talks cannot solve all Kenya&rsquo;s problems.<\/p>\n<p>He singled out the long term issues under Agenda Item Four, which include the question of land, a new constitution and historical injustices.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The issues in relation to Agenda Four are largely tied to what Parliament will legislate. They cannot be resolved as a stand alone item through Serena.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>He singled out the issue of land, which he said cannot be solved through negotiations at the Serena hotel.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Such matters could only be remedied through broader consultations in a long drawn out process.&rdquo;<br \/>The negotiators assured the public that they were on course with the talks.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday&rsquo;s remarks however seem to give support to earlier remarks attributed to Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula that the remainder of the talks can be handled by Kenyans without foreign input.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a news conference at his office Wetangula said all that remains is the implementation of recommendations made at the talks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We finished Agenda Item Four. We signed and published. It was never the wish of (Kofi) Annan to either implement or supervise the implementation. This remains a Kenyan issue,&rdquo; he defended.<\/p>\n<p>It was all logical and less emotive for Wetangula: &ldquo;Endless meetings in Serena may be unhelpful; we must take these issues to Parliament.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But for those who were still at the House of Peace, the Mudavadi-led team were a happy lot having made progress on the assignments given to them by mediators.<\/p>\n<p>The report card read as follows: &ldquo;We have given them the National Ethnic and Race Relations Bill, the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Bill and the concept paper on the new constitution.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And in about a fortnight, another task would be complete, the Kenya Law Reform Commission together with the negotiators would produce the draft bills on the roadmap to the new constitution.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Chair, they said it was their opinion that the next meeting be made after work on the Constitution and other necessary Bills was complete.<\/p>\n<p>No date was however set for the resumption of the talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, May 23 &#8211; Negotiators at the mediation talks on Friday said they would henceforth only engage with the Oluyemi Adeniji-led panel on a need-to-need basis. Cabinet Minister Martha Karua said the ministerial team had not disengaged from the mediation process but needed to tackle remaining items from a &lsquo;Kenyan perspective&rsquo;. &ldquo;Our continued engagement is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12365,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hazy future for mediation talks &#187; Capital News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NAIROBI, May 23 - Negotiators at the mediation talks on Friday said they would henceforth only engage with the Oluyemi Adeniji-led panel on a need-to-need - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.ke\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2008\/05\/hazy-future-for-mediation-talks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hazy future for mediation talks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NAIROBI, May 23 - Negotiators at the mediation talks on Friday said they would henceforth only engage with the Oluyemi Adeniji-led panel on a need-to-need - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.ke\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2008\/05\/hazy-future-for-mediation-talks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Capital News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/capitalfmkenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-05-23T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@capitalfmkenya\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@capitalfmkenya\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2008\/05\/hazy-future-for-mediation-talks\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2008\/05\/hazy-future-for-mediation-talks\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Hazy future for mediation talks\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-05-23T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2008\/05\/hazy-future-for-mediation-talks\/\"},\"wordCount\":473,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2008\/05\/hazy-future-for-mediation-talks\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Kenya\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2008\/05\/hazy-future-for-mediation-talks\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2008\/05\/hazy-future-for-mediation-talks\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2008\/05\/hazy-future-for-mediation-talks\/\",\"name\":\"Hazy future for mediation talks &#187; 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