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The East African
Monday March 15 2021
UK High Commissioner to Kenya Jane Marriott said the UK-Kenya trade deal will be extended to the rest of the East African Community. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
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UK High Commissioner to Kenya Jane Marriott said the deal will be extended to the rest of the EAC.
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The UK government has sought to allay fears that the recently signed British government s new bilateral trade agreement with Kenya will undermine the East Africa Community Customs Union protocol.
While addressing the media shortly after holding the first mini Kenya-UK trade exhibition at a Nairobi hotel on Friday, the UK High Commissioner to Kenya Jane Marriott said the deal will be extended to the rest of the EAC.
UK-Kenya trade deal ratified overnight despite ongoing legal challenge
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In a surprise twist, Kenyan MPs ratified late on Tuesday evening the Kenya-UK trade agreement, paving the way for a duty-free trade economic framework between the UK and the East African country. The outcome of the vote was only made public yesterday.
Adan Haji, chairman of the Kenyan parliament’s trade committee, reputedly managed to persuade a majority of Kenyan MPs not to block the trade pact, despite fierce opposition from a range of influential parliamentarians in recent weeks.
A press officer at the UK Department for International Trade confirmed to
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The strongly-worded statement comes even as the Indian high commission in London, just hours before had slammed the one-sided discussion of UK MPs
He said the false assertions - without substantiation or facts - were made, casting aspersions on the largest functioning democracy in the world and its institutions
New Delhi: In an unprecedented development, India on Tuesday summoned UK s High Commissioner to Delhi Alex Ellis to lodge a strong protest after a discussion in UK Parliament over India s new farm laws. The meeting took place in the House of Commons Westminster hall in response to an e-petition campaign.
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