{"id":575244,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/575244/?format=json","text_counter":67,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations on a Protocol, Pact and Agreement relating to Defence Affairs, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 7th July 2015, and pursuant to Section 8 of the Treaty Making and Ratification Act, 2012, approves the ratification of:- (i) The East African Community Protocol on Cooperation in Defence Affairs; (ii) The Mutual Defence Pact between the Republic of Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda; and, (iii) The Agreement on the Establishment of the Eastern Africa Standby Force."}