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    "id": 1481066,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musalia Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs",
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    "content": "negotiations are quite advanced. We hope that some of these issues can be tackled within the framework of that conversation. On compensation of the victims of the 1998 US Embassy bomb blast, we are pursuing that matter following the resolution of the House on that so that we can engage formally with the Parliament or the Congress in the USA. This is now underway following the resolution that was passed by our Members of the Legislature. At an appropriate time, we will be able to report progress systematically because it is a process that has to engage with their counterparts on the other side. Indeed, economic diplomacy is very critical to us. The United States of America is perhaps now our largest market when it comes to the export of apparel. We are the largest exporter to them and the market continues to grow. So, we take our relationship with the USA extermely seriously in this context as a key and fundamental trading partner. That is why you will find that during the recent state visit by the President, certain key issues were undertaken to enhance the trade and partnership between us and the United States. As I have said, we are also negotiating the Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement and the other programmes that the Kenyan Government is working on very closely with the United States. These have a major bearing on the economies of both countries, but more so on the Kenyan economy. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I may need to get a little more clarification on the question regarding dual citizenship and the Maisha Card. If the Speaker allows, we can do a little more research on this specific item and communicate to the House."
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