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    "id": 786974,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Washiali",
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
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    "content": "Following the passage of the Constitution 2010 that provided for bicameral legislature, a meeting between the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Senate in 2013 resolved to share parliamentary international desks. Accordingly ACP-EU, CPA and EALA are domiciled in the National Assembly while the PAP, IPU and FP-ICGLR are domiciled in the Senate. Thus the Speaker of the Senate has been attending the IPU meetings. The PAP is one of the nine organs proposed in the 1991 treaty which established the African Economic Community, Abuja Treaty. Its purpose as set out in Article 17 of the Constitutive Act of the African Union is to ensure full participation of African people in the development and economic integration of the continent. The first PAP was inaugurated on 18th March 2004 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Its headquarters is in Midrand, South Africa. The current mandate of PAP is to exercise advisory and consultative powers. The PAP functions are set out in the 2001 Protocol to the Abuja Treaty and it includes: 1. Facilitate effective implementation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), African Economic Community’s (AECs) policies and objectives; 2. Work towards harmonisation or coordination of member states laws; 3. Make recommendations aimed at contributing to the attainment of the OAU’s and AEC’s objectives and draw attention to the challenges facing the integration process in Africa as well as the strategies of dealing with them; 4. Promote the OAU’s and Attestations d'Etudes Collégiales (AECs) programmes and objectives in member states constituencies. 5. Encourage good governance, transparency and accountability in member states. 6. Familiarise the people of Africa with the objectives and policies aimed at integrating the African continent within the framework of the AU’s establishment. 7. Promote the coordination and harmonisation of policies, measures, programmes and activities of Africa’s parliamentary forums. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Pan-African Parliament has 250 Members representing the 50 AU member states that have ratified the Protocol. Each of the member state is represented by five Members designated by their respective national parliaments from among their Members. A parliamentarian’s term should correspond to his or her own national parliament term or any deliberative organ that elected or designated the parliamentarian."
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