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Outgoing Speaker calls for stronger parliamentary diplomacy

Rep. Woo Won-shik, speaker of the National Assembly whose two-year term is set to end Friday, called for consolidating lawmakers’ fragmented diplomatic activities to strengthen the parliament’s diplomatic capabilities. Stressing the South Korean parliament’s role in the country’s soft diplomacy, the five-term lawmaker said wat a press conference Thursday that there was greater room for the National Assembly to help augment state diplomacy. "If (the parliament) manages to build trust with key fig