<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 29/01/2010, at 6:47 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>So, let's get to work on such a statement now. I don't think it needs to be very long, and indeed we could just put forward some bullet points for Ginger to elaborate upon on the day. So far we have on the table the following substantive themes:</div><div><br></div><div>* Human rights</div><div>* Development agenda</div><div>* Network neutrality/Open Internet</div><div><br></div><div>Comments, please, particularly on the last of these which Parminder has just introduced?</div></div><div>
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