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    "content": "experts. Our delegation participated very actively in all the deliberations and issued statements with regard to various topics on the position of our nation. Kenya also provided a brief on the political situation in the country at the time, post-general elections, assuring the delegates that there was peace in the country despite the fact that the repeat election was going to take place at the time. On the meeting of the 48th, the delegation to Haiti for the meeting of December, 2017, was led by the Hon. Patrick Muiru, who is a Member of the Speaker’s Panel in the National Assembly. He was accompanied by hon. Lilian Gogo, hon. Corneli Serem, hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi and myself on behalf of the Senate. We had the following clerk; Ms. Wanjiru Ndiriri, Mr. Noah Too and Ms. Lilian Osundwa. Amb. Johnson Weru provided the technical advice. The Joint Parliamentary Assembly was preceded by the three standing committees which are; Political Affairs, Economic Development and Trade and Finance. At the time when we were in Brussels, we chaired the Economic Development committee and on proceeding to Haiti, it was the change over time because we had one year of leading that committee. For the benefit of Members, I will say something about the ACP-EU Group. The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly was created out of a common desire to bring together the elected representatives of the European Community, who are the members of the European Parliament and the elected representatives from African countries, the Caribbean and Pacific states who form the ACP Group. Those groups must be groups that have signed the Cotonou Agreement which I will be mentioning later. Since the entry into force of the Treaty, that is the Cotonou Agreement, the European Union has acquired a more prominent role in trade activities between itself and the ACP Groups. A substantial part of the work of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly is directed towards promoting human rights and democracy and the common values of humanity and this has produced joint commitment undertaken within the framework of the United Nation conferences as well as resolutions of partner states to implement. The composition and working of the groups, the representation of the African, Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) bring together 78 member States who, under the Cotonou Agreement, must be Members of Parliament (MPs). They meet their European parliamentary counterparts who must also number the same; 78. The number comes from the 27 partner states of the European Union bringing together; a Parliament of about 156 members. The joint parliamentary assembly meets alternately in all the ACP countries and the European Union (EU). Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, two co-presidents exist and we are happy because Kenya has enjoyed the state of co-presidency previously when the hon. (Dr.) Joyce Laboso, the current Governor for Bomet County, was a leader of the delegation in the last Parliament. As I had mentioned earlier, there are three standing committees; the committee on political affairs, the committee on economic development, finance and trade and the committee on social affairs and environment. The assembly also rotates membership among the committees and every partner state is supposed to be in one committee. We also do a rotational system when it comes to the chairing of the committees. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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