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FROM DECISIONS TO ACTIONS

FROM DECISIONS TO ACTIONS In less than two months Kenya will play host to the 14 th  session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. This high-level engagement will once again put Kenya on the map and will bring together over 6000 high-profile delegates and stakeholders from around the world, to discuss key emerging issues affecting world economies particularly in developing nations. Kenya is quickly becoming a “hotbed” of major decision-making as this will not be the first time that an international body is pitching camp in the country to deliberate on important world matters.  Last year in December, the 10 th  Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization was held in Nairobi, culminating into the adoption of the “Nairobi Package”. WTO officials have since termed it as historical since 6 critical decisions were made on Agriculture, Cotton, and other issues related to least developed countries. A ministerial declaration outlining the Packa...