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    "id": 363071,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/363071/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Laboso",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Cherono Laboso",
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    "content": "THAT, aware that since the signing of the Cotonou Agreement in the year 2000, the Government has been negotiating Economic Trade Agreements (EPAs) with the European Union (EU) together with other member States of the Eastern Africa region; further aware of the concerns raised by the Eastern Africa region on the contentious aspects of the EPAs, including offering undue advantage to products from other markets at the expense of growth of local and regional industries; further taking cognizance of the adverse effect that EPAs had projected to have on Kenya’s economy particularly on agriculture and manufacturing sector; aware of an eminent amendment of EU market access regulation whose effect is that the 18 countries which have not signed or ratified the full EPAs most of which are from Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya included, will henceforth be removed from duty-free access to the EU markets; further aware that once removed, Kenyan products will from 2016 cease to access the EU market without paying duty; and that the national economy is estimated to lose more than Kshs10 billion in that year alone, this House urges the Government not to sign the EPAs in their current form until all contentious issues raised by the Eastern Africa region, and Kenya in particular, are addressed and that the Government continues to explore trade negotiations with EU."
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