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Washington, July 26, 2015, 03:40 – REGNUM On a visit to the Kenyan capital Nairobi, US President Barack Obama discussed with his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta is not only question of the organization of direct flights between the two countries and the problem of corruption. The American president would like to see the home of his father no longer infringes on the rights of gays, according to ABCNews.
Despite the fact that Obama came out strongly in defense of the rights of African gays, Kenyatta said that for his country are much more pressing questions: for example, international terrorism.
The head of Kenya told the American president that there are things that society does not accept due to the prevailing cultural traditions. People find it difficult to impose what they refuse to accept, said Kenyatta. Sexual acts between members of the same sex are considered a crime in Kenya and punishable by imprisonment up to 14 years.
Barack Obama first arrived in Nairobi from the date of entry into the presidential office. As a joke, the US leader at a gala dinner in his honor, many in America believe that he flew to Kenya to see his birth certificate. “It is not so”, – assured Obama. Despite the fact that his father was born in Kenya, the president, and he was born in Hawaii, the jokes about it did not stop even though the publication of a few years ago, Obama’s birth certificate.
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