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    "id": 123083,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. That is a very valid question and concern by the House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me just start by saying that we actually do have limited capacity on the ground, partly because of budgetary constraints and also because of the protracted nature of the negotiations. And it is not a problem that is unique to Kenya; it is a problem that has been shared by all the developing countries. The developed countries have the capacity, the time and the resources and whether it is part of their deliberate way of winning over the negotiations by stretching out our limited resources, but we have taken the route of negotiating together within the African group. Just two weeks back, we had a meeting in Cairo to work out the African position. As I speak here today, there is a meeting going on in Brussels, which is now bringing together all the African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries again to agree together, because our problems are similar and share out our limited capacity by putting it out together so that no single country is actually negotiating individually but negotiating as a bigger group; the developed versus the developing and least developed. For now, that is the most we can do. I do agree there is need to build that capacity and we have been pressing our case to build that capacity and we do hope with the support of this House, we will actually have more funds allocated to develop that capacity for negotiation."
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