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    "id": 509474,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shill",
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        "legal_name": "Elias Bare Shill",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This Motion is very important to the international community. Kenya being a member of that community, it is important that we are considered members of the civilized nations of the world. The world is now becoming a global village. It is important that we have international obligations observed all over the world by all nations, so that we can live in a world which is peaceful and has harmony. There are certain international obligations which Kenya as a nation is a signatory to. African countries at large have affected us in many ways. I have in mind the World Trade Organization (WTO), where we negotiate the prices of our goods. Africa is a producer of primary goods. When we go to negotiate for our primary good’s prices, Africa usually sends either very junior or incompetent officers. Prices of agricultural goods produced in Africa are always very lowly priced, and that way African countries, and developing countries in general are shortchanged. At the end of the day, because of sending incompetent officers who are not trained on this field, Africa has lost a lot when negotiating for fair prices of their goods. One other important factor in international obligations, which has been in the world stage, is climate change. Africa produces less than 2 per cent of pollution of world. The major producers of pollution are the industrialized nations, particularly United States of America and China, and which have refused to sign very important international obligations which have been negotiated. I have the Kyoto Protocol in mind. This is what major pollutants like Russia and USA have never put their signatures on, yet climate change has affected most of the developing countries, particularly Africa. Global warming that has taken place as a result of this industrial pollution, has affected the Ozone layer of our mother earth. It has made our agricultural productivity go down in areas with very reliable rain. We are no longer having that reliable pattern of rain because there is climate change that has affected us, prticularly in Africa. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have never got adequate compensation for the major industrial players, which were responsible for affecting our climate. We have also been shortchanged because when we were negotiating for this on the world platform, it was said that Africa had not been serious and we have not been able to negotiate those terms favourably."
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