On 9/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kleinwächter, Wolfgang</b> <<a href="mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de">wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>With regard to the Co-Chair I think it is important to recognize that the Brazilian Co-Chair does not represent the Brazilian government but the host country. This is for some people probably something like hair splitting but we shuld not understimate the interesting diplomatic difference.
<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">For list members' information, I copy hereunder a comment I officially made in the open consultations on Monday regarding that point :<span style="font-style: italic;"><br><span style="font-style: italic;">
</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br></span></span><pre>I note with great interest, without getting into details, the interesting distinction that our chair Nitin has introduced
<br>about the co-chair being the representative of the country, rather than thegovernment. I still note that, nonetheless, the country representative is<br> designated by the government in the Brazil situation. So it's an interesting
<br> two layers of things. And it's interesting to take into account the notion<br> that sometimes governments can designate for certain functions people who are<br> not government officials.</pre><br>-- <br>____________________
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