President William Ruto on Monday said Kenya and Poland are keen on strengthening their partnership in trade and economic affairs, agriculture and food security, and environment and climate action.
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00:00 Poland is a valued partner of Kenya with common values and shared ambition
00:04 and aspirations guiding our present and future relationship. We are united in our quest
00:12 to enhance collaboration in trade and economic affairs, agriculture and food security,
00:18 environment and climate action, as well as our individual and collective contribution
00:24 to multilateralism. The two MOUs, Mr. President, we have signed here bears testimony to our
00:33 commitment to this collaboration. We've had extensive discussions on the imperative to
00:41 enhance trade and investment between the two countries. Seizing the presence of a high-powered
00:47 business delegation accompanying you, Mr. President, I invite them to invest in the
00:53 numerous opportunities that Kenya has to offer. I also encourage them to leverage Kenya's strategic
01:00 geographical advantage with Nairobi serving as the hub and gateway for their regional and
01:08 continental investments as a technology powerhouse Kenya offers unrivaled opportunities.
01:18 President Duda and I have just witnessed the signing of two frameworks for cooperation
01:23 further solidifying our already existing friendly relations. The MOU on agricultural cooperation
01:35 and MOU on tax solidarity program. Our country serves as the gateway to the East African
01:42 community market and boasts the largest seaport in the region. Consequently, I invite Poland to
01:50 consider Mombasa and Lamu ports as possible logistical hubs for exporting products, including
01:57 grains, to the region and beyond. I urge President Duda to partner with us through public, private
02:06 and government-to-government partnerships to explore the vast market in the agricultural sector,
02:11 particularly in post-harvest value addition aiming to conclusively address food security.
02:20 On labour mobility, we discussed the possibility of developing a labour mobility framework to
02:29 expand job opportunities available for our highly skilled young labour force while narrowing
02:36 labour deficit in Poland. This is an area that a win-win outcome is a reality.
02:46 Apart from that, we also discussed modern tax policy,
02:49 closing gaps in the public finance sector, in the tax sector. That is why the memorandum was signed
02:57 on cooperation on tax solidarity. And we also discussed, ladies and gentlemen,
03:05 a modern finance sector, a banking sector, the so-called FinTech. I shared our experiences in
03:12 Poland in the sector of e-banking, which is well developed in our country. It is one of the top
03:17 levels in Europe, absolutely. So I shared all our achievements and experiences that we're able to
03:26 share on this one. We also discussed, ladies and gentlemen, the development of medical,
03:33 of the health sector here in Kenya, where Poland right now has a cooperation in this regard. I
03:39 spoke about our experiences in terms of the construction of the Polish healthcare system.
03:45 I spoke about the combination. On the one hand, we have got state-owned health service,
03:50 on the other hand, private health service sector. And I also said how this is developing and how
03:59 general access to health services is being given to the population in Poland. These topics here
04:06 today are an element of contemporary activities, day-to-day activities, which we're implementing
04:13 also in terms of development in Kenya. And these were the topics of our discussion today as well.
04:21 Thank you.
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