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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Poghisio",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute in support of this Report. I need to declare my interest from the very outset that I am a member of the delegation. So, I would like to say a few words on this Report. I continue to lament that when reports like these are being presented in the House, the attendance in the House is normally very poor. I will also continue to encourage hon. Members to take keen interest in these reports because, as I said, in one of the reports, these things do not happen for nothing. We do not go to Barbados, Brussels or Germany for these meetings in vain. By presenting and tabling these reports in the House, this is a way of domesticating the proceedings, conclusions and resolutions of the goings-on at the ACP-EU JPA. For the benefit of hon. Members, the 77 countries from the African Caribbean and Pacific have their own Assembly which is called the ACP Assembly. It is a parliament of all those who belong to the African Caribbean and Pacific region. They meet independently, first of all between the time we go to these sessions, 562 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 11, 2007 in order to agree on what to discuss with the European side. So, all the things that are done here are actually compromised resolutions. There is no one thing that comes from one side that is a bottleneck to the other side. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issues for hon. Members to begin to look at in these reports is begin to see how the world has become such a small village. It has shrunk so much that what affects Kenya is no longer a preserve of Kenyans. What affects Kenya in the area of tourism affects the rest of the world. If there is a problem with our flowers, it affects the rest of the ACP and the EU. It is, therefore, so important that hon. Members begin to take interest in what really is the business of the House in discussing reports like these ones. From what the Report has said, our main issues, as Kenya - first of all I need to inform the House that Kenya happens to sit on the Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade. We are members of that Committee! However, there are other committees; the Political and Social Committees so that the Report includes the urgent matters that are dealt with in those committees. Kenya also happens to be in the Bureau. That means that we are in the Committee that sets the agenda. So, we are privileged and what we report to this House is basically to say that hon. Members need to benefit from the discussions and resolutions made by people from 77 different countries of the ACP and the countries that make up the EU."
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