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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will take this chance to congratulate you for being appointed to the Speaker’s Panel. Congratulations Madam. I want to congratulate you for being elected for the second time by your constituents. I would like to take this golden opportunity to thank the people of Ijara. I feel very honoured and privileged that the people of Ijara decided to give a chance to a woman to represent them in this august House for the first time in North Eastern Province. I want to thank them very much. I take the responsibility and, as I promised them during the campaign period, I will be their servant-leader. Water is a very crucial and important natural resource. As a country, there are many arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) in this country that face a lot of water problems - my constituency being one of them. I would like to talk about the Agreement on the Cooperation Framework on the Nile River Basin. The Nile River is the longest river in the world, flowing for more than 7,000 kilometres. The River Basin extends to more than 10 countries in Africa. It is very crucial and important and, therefore, to have co-operation between the member-states on sustainable use and management of the river resulted in the establishment of Nile Basin Initiative in 1999. It was an inter-governmental initiative which addressed the short-term and looked into the future to create a long-term agreement that would address and bring together the member-states. Its main objective was to establish a permanent institution and negotiate with member-states on a framework that will address the needs, sustainability and development of the Nile Basin. The Agreement, among others in the preamble, states and affirms the importance of having integrated The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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