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    "id": 1115178,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as it is in the Motion, we are being asked to ratify those two agreements. The first question that I would like to address, as I move, is what these agreements are asking the people of Kenya and the House to do. In simple terms, the agreements, which I have put as an appendix in my Report, is requesting for the designated airlines of South Africa and Kenya to come into the respective countries. Those from Kenya to land in South Africa and vice versa. They are asking for permission to land anywhere. The same thing is required for that of Botswana. People may be asking what has been happening since they have been seeing the South African Airways landing into our country. They are doing that under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), since we have not done proper processes to achieve where we want to go. That is why the Executive, through the Cabinet Secretary (CS), myself and my Committee, are asking the House to ratify that agreement so that everything is in tandem and legal. In a layman’s understanding, that is what this agreement is seeking. In legal terms, I indulge the House to look at Article 2. I want to start with the Agreement between South Africa and Kenya. Article 2 of the agreement is the meat or the spinal cord of the agreement. It says, for the record of the House, that: (i) Each contracting party shall grant to the other contracting party the rights provided for in this agreement to enable its designated airlines to establish and operate international air services on the routes specified in the annex. (ii) Subject to the provisions of this agreement the designated airlines of each contracting party shall have the right: (a) To fly across the territory of the other contracting party without landing; (b) To make stops in territory for non-traffic purposes; (c) To land in the territory of the other contracting party for the purposes of taking on board and discharging traffic in passengers, baggage, cargo and mail while operating on agreed services. (iii) The airlines of each contracting party other than those designated in terms of Article (III) shall also have the rights provided for in paragraph (a) and (b) of Sub Article (ii). The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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