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    "id": 249388,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/249388/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndambuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to seek a Ministerial Statement from the Minister for Trade and Industry. The current preferential and non-reciprocal trade regime on which the European Union (EU) and the African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) trade with each other, established under the COTONOU Agreement, 2000, is scheduled to expire at the end of 2007, when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) waiver, granted to give it legal status expires. I would like to know the following from the Minister. I would like the Minister to tell the House whether Kenya has negotiated and signed a new trading co-operation regime and with which countries. Is the agreement going to be ready by the end of the year? Secondly, I would like to know whether the Minister is aware that, the EU has threatened ACP countries, Kenya included, with lower access to the EU market, if they fail to sign a new trade deal by the end of the year. Mr. Speaker, Sir, thirdly, I would like the Minister to tell the House how he intends to protect the Kenyan market from being flooded with EU imports once a new regime is signed."
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