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    "id": 847457,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/847457/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13239,
        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
        "slug": "janet-marania-teyiaa"
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    "content": "Another recommendation is that there is need to guarantee what we call the multi- stakeholder approach at all the relevant stages of the ACP-EU activities. That multi-stakeholder approach is very necessary in giving strength and synergy to what a certain region wants to push for. For instance, it talks of post-Cotonou because the Cotonou Agreement is coming to an end. It talks of issues to do with doing business with the EU. It is better to take a multi-stakeholder approach. The ACP that has a membership of 78 countries can come together as a multi- stakeholder, have a common stand and negotiate with their EU counterparts. The EAC is now negotiating with the EU on what we call Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). If we do not negotiate as a bloc, then you will find Kenya being isolated because the rest of the East African partner states will still import things from the EU using the rider, ‘everything but arms’. Kenya is the only country in the EAC that is not a least developed country (LDC). There is an entry point for LDC’s to access European markets on everything, but arms. If we take this multi- stakeholders’ approach beyond East Africa and use the ACP approach with a common stand, we will all benefit."
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