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    "id": 227618,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Poghisio",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 202,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to second this Motion. The Report as presented, is supposed to do something among us or in us. It is not in vain that we make these trips to attend the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary assemblies or simply the ACP- EU assemblies. We attend them so that our National Assembly can benefit from knowledge, resources, shared experiences and best practices that we pick when we interact with hon. Members of the ACP-EU. As my colleague has indicated, we are part of the Bureau of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. It is important that we note that being part of the Bureau is a privileged position. It means that you make the decisions and set the agenda for what goes on there. So, being 458 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 5, 2007 in the Bureau really helps to put our country and this Parliament in the position of decision-making. Because of that, we have been represented in joint missions to, for example, Ethiopia. I am sure a report on that was brought to this House. So, it is not for nothing that these assemblies meet. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, something that comes to me as a surprise is that whenever reports are discussed in this House, hon. Members are not interested, as has been evidenced. Is it because nobody understands these reports or nobody reads them? Maybe very few people read them. I would like to encourage my colleagues by telling them that they can only gain by reading these reports. There is a report that was discussed before this one, namely, the Report on the IPU. Hon. Members should take interest in studying some of the resolutions made in the ACP- EU. If you read the Compromised Resolutions, they touch on issues of importance to this continent. There are resolutions on Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Northern Uganda and Sudan. All those are good for us as a Parliament to understand that they were discussed at an ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the activities of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly are done in regions or sub-regions. It puts us in regions and that is the trend of today. The business of the world today is in regional groupings. We talk about markets when we negotiate on behalf of these regions. We talk about Eastern, Southern or Western Africa group. That accords us the opportunity to understand what goes on---"
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