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"content": " Thank you for giving me this opportunity. From the outset, I want to support the Report. I congratulate the team especially the team leader who brought her team together and was able to canvass, discuss, and pass issues that affect Africa, East Africa, Kenya, and our constituencies. In the whole Report, we cannot see a discussion of issues like LGBTQ that are against Africa and affect it. Congratulations to this team. As I support, I want to go on record that as the Chairperson of the Committee on Regional Integration I get concerned that such a Joint Assembly meeting and others happen without representation by any Member from the Committee on Regional Integration. Though it is administrative, I want to put it on record that it is necessary to be inclusive. Time and again, these bilateral talks and the ratification of these agreements find their way to my Committee and we are, as Members, meant to discuss issues we never interacted with. For avoidance of doubt, the Committee on Regional Integration is created under Standing Order 212. Among its mandates, we are supposed to examine records of all relevant debates and resolutions of meetings of the Pan-African Parliament, the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific States, European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly and other regional integration bodies. This is in Standing Order 212(c). Although I do not have the Standing Orders, I think Standing Order 212(b) also requires us to examine the records of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). While we interact with Members of EALA because we can call the Members here or go to Arusha and interact with their debates, we as a Committee get very disadvantaged when we are supposed to examine these kinds of records and agree yet we did not interact with the reports in whichever way. I put it on record that it is important for them to consider at least a Member from the Committee on Regional Integration when forming these delegations. It is not necessarily the leadership, but at least, one Member. Having said that, the joint assemblies are very important. They are just like regional blocs that come together for political reasons for trade, security, among many other reasons. When we look at this Report, we realise that it resolved issues pertinent to Africa as a continent, and Kenya too. They discussed issues of climate change, political affairs, economic development, and human rights very well. If I may touch on climate change, this is real. While the EU is part of this Joint Assembly and many other Assemblies, including the Inter- Parliamentary Assembly that happens many times in Geneva, we are sure that climate change has become what it has become today majorly because of the contribution by these foreign nations. We are sure because we have far much fewer factories here in Kenya than the ones in Europe which contribute heavily to emissions. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am not sure whether we are speaking for five or 10 minutes. From the beginning of this debate, I did not hear the Mover move the Procedural Motion on time. I am not sure whether I have already spoken for 10 minutes, but I will reorganise my thoughts and quickly speak about climate change being real. It is not only a threat, but also a disaster to the country. As such, the Government must invest more in green energy because it will be environmental friendly. On this green energy, the Government must carefully invest on 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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