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    "content": "from the word go, we did say that all available maps, orders in council and descriptions in our various constitutions of the two countries, show that the Island is part of Kenya’s territory. In a situation such as this, the best way to resolve the argument is to be scientific and factual. We agreed that having visited the site and realized that there was a misconception between the two sides, the Island Kenya was calling Pyramid is not the Island Uganda was calling Pyramid which was the beacon on the lake. The survey will establish and erect beacons and what is scientifically called co- ordinates from the tri-junction of the Kenya-Uganda-Tanzania border in the lake up to the tri-junction of the Kenya-Sudan-Uganda border in the north. This is an international boundary that since Independence has never been resurveyed or re-demarcated or even the beacons assessed and seen to be in their positions. You have heard information that certain beacons in some parts of the boundary have been destroyed. Indeed, information available is that that has been done. But we also understand that it has been criminal act. The need to survey, apart from the Migingo issue, is also borne out of a requirement by the African Union (AU) whose Constitutive Act, states that boundaries inherited at Independence are sacrosanct for African countries. Beyond that, the AU has directed African countries that each country and its neighbour must ascertain the boundaries and sign a protocol and deposit them with the AU by the year 2012. The United Nations (UN) has also, after the proliferation of boundary disputes all over Africa- -- You know we have had disputes between Botswana and Namibia; Eritrea and Ethiopia; Nigeria and Cameroon and others. The UN also directed that these protocols be deposited with the UN. So, the survey that we are carrying, and the cost element that goes with it, has been assessed by technicians from the relevant Ministries to achieve these requirements of the AU and the UN; whether there was a dispute or not."
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