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    "speaker_name": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Defence (",
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    "content": "I beg to reply. (a) The conditions under which the Kenya Government entered into the agreement with the Government of Italy to establish the San Marco Space Station at Ngomeni in Malindi in 1962 are contained in the agreement signed between the two countries on 18th September, 1963. The two countries agreed to pursue jointly a project for the peaceful exploration of equatorial space region. The project was to be implemented in two phases. The first phase would consist of the launching of sounding rockets ionospheric experiments. The second phase was to consist of the launching of equatorial satellites to study the propagation of radio waves. The agreement has since been reviewed and renewed three times, namely, in 1964, 1987 and 1995. The current agreement expired on 31st December, 2011. The two countries are holding negotiations to renew the agreement and we hope to conclude them by the end of this year. Due to the fact that the station would be used to perform rocket launches and also deal with sensitive high resolution data touching on security, its running has since been placed under the Ministry of State for Defence as the implementing agent of the agreement for the Government of the Republic of Kenya. (b) The station has been used for launching rockets and for tracing and controlling the launched rockets and the orbiting satellites. The station has also been used as a ground station for reception, processing and archiving of satellite data."
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