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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I get the point. I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Sixth Session of the ACP Parliamentary Assembly and the 12th ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly held from November 15th to 23rd, 2006, in Bridgetown, Barbados, laid on the Table of the House on 29th March, 2007. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I, would, therefore, like to focus on the ACP Assembly April 10, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 497 and state that the assembly was formally created in April, 2005, in Bamako, Mali, with the aim of providing an institutional framework for the work of the ACP Parliamentarians. The assembly is not a new structure, but rather a formalisation of the existing inter-parliamentary co-operation mechanism within the ACP group. It gives identity to the Parliamentary assembly and creates a forum through which ACP Parliamentarians are enabled to demonstrate their organisational, methodological and assertive skills. It also allows its Members to consult, exchange ideas, harmonise positions and hence better negotiate with their EU counterparts. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the assembly has a Charter, of which I am glad to note that Kenya was among the first signatories. This commitment on our part, as a country, and, indeed, by many other ACP States that have signed the Charter, is a recognition of the work accomplished in creating the assembly and translates into Kenya's political wave to act as a true partner under the Cotonou Agreement. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to inform the House that one of the reasons why the ACP Members had to initiate creating a formal assembly was because the European representatives are members of the European Parliament. Therefore, they regularly meet and debate together, but the ACP representatives are Members of Parliament from all the ACP member countries. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, therefore, the only opportunity that Members of the ACP get is when they attend those meetings. Therefore, we discovered that we were a little disadvantaged."
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