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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the PAP Ordinary Session of The Sixth Parliament took place between the 23rd October and 12th November 2022 in Midrand South Africa. The Session was held under the African Union (AU) theme of the year which is; Building Resilience in Nutrition on the African Continent and Accelerating the Human Capital, Social and Economic Development. The Kenyan delegation to this meeting comprised the following; (1) Sen. Danson Mungatana MGH, MP, who is the leader of the delegation; (2) Sen. (Prof) Margaret Kamar, MP, the other Member of the Senate; (3) Hon. Esther Muthoni Passaris, MP, Nairobi City County; (4) Hon. Joseph Kalasinga Majimbo, MP, Kabuchai Constituency and; (5) Hon. Rahab Mukami Wachira, MP, Nyeri. The delegation was supported by Ms. Lillian Osundwa, who is our Clerk Assistant in the Senate and Polycarp Matara Otundo, Eric Mokaya Nyambata from the National Assembly and Jane Jelegat Serem the Personal Assistant to a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, during the Session, the PAP undertook the swearing of new Members from Burundi, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Somalia, and Tanzania to the PAP. The delegation from Kenya was sworn in on the 10th of November because we arrived late since the processing of our delegation came late because of our own sitting. I will be talking a bit about the PAP itself. After the plenary, the Kenyan delegation had a courtesy call to the President, the Hon. Chief Fortune Charumbira and the second Vice-President who is also the Chair of the East African Caucus, Hon. (Dr.) Gayo, Ashebiri. The President took the time to take us through the structures and the operations of the PAP since we were a new delegation. Just to highlight the operations of this Parliament for the sake of Members; the PAP is established in the protocol of the treaty establishing the African Economic Community, Article 2. It provides that Member states hereby establish a PAP, the composition, functions, powers and organisation of which are governed by the protocol that was set out. The vision and purpose of the PAP can be traced to the Pan-African ideals of cooperation, which started from the days of Organizational African Unity (OAU). These ideals inspired the signing of the treaty establishing the African Economic Community in Abuja in the year 1991 and the adoption of the Sixth Declaration of 1999. This is history that we must always record and remember as Members of Parliament. That is why I am mentioning it. The Sixth Declaration called for the speedy implementation of the provisions of the Abuja Treaty to establish nine institutions in the AU. For the sake of Members, they are; the Assembly of the Union, the Executive Council that is for the Heads of State, there is the PAP, the Court of Justice, the Commission, the Permanent Representative Committee, the Committee of the Ambassadors, the Specialised Technical Committees and Economic Social and Cultural Council as well as financial institutions including the African Development Bank."
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