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    "id": 94004,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/94004/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to let the House appreciate the fact that we are not negotiating as Kenya, we are negotiating as economic blocks. The East Africa Community (EAC) is one economic block. It is a Customs Union and so, it has been given the responsibility of negotiating on behalf of the five countries. Within Africa, the wider Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) countries are negotiating under the East and Southern Africa Configuration (ESAC). The South African Development Community is also negotiating. There is Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the West. Basically, all those groupings are negotiating; but we are all collaborating in terms of our negotiations so that whatever the EAC negotitates and achieves, we share it with the ESAC. Whatever they achieve, we also share so that, at the end of it all, through the co-ordination of the African Union (AU), we are able to get the very best from those negotiation for Africa and, indeed, for other Caribbean and Pacific countries. So, it is a delicate negotiation process but it is good for us. It defines how we relate with the EU and how we define our development, trade aspects, how we protect our markets, how they protect their markets and, more importantly, how we continue together as economic partners."
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