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<div><br></div><div>Yes, I think there should be a statement.</div><div><br></div>After the UNDESA representative declared at the IGF consultations that it was "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68)">not our intention to submit the report to the CSTD", there were immediate reactions from other stateholders, many (European) governments as well as from private sector representatives, asking for explanation why CSTD would be cut out of the process. </span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68)">The mandate and role of the CSTD in reviewing and assessing the implementation of WSIS outcomes is anchored in decisions by WSIS and ECOSOC, and well established in 2007-2009 when it annually drafted the ECOSOC resolutions on the WSIS follow-up, including asessments on the perfortmance of the IGF. There is no reason for a sudden departure from this process on the question of the continuation of the IGF. </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444">As a former representative of Finland on CSTD (until my retirement last summer) I can confirm that civil society and private sector representatives have much better access and opportunity to influence the proceedings at the CSTD than at the ECOSOC level. In fact, the ECOSOC decisions that opened CSTD up to other stakeholders speak about "participating in the work" of it, rather than just observing. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444">Yrjö Länsipuro</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><br></font><div><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: jeremy@ciroap.org<br>Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:15:58 -0500<br>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<br>Subject: [governance] Secretary-General's recommendations on the continuation of the IGF<br><br>
Those who were at the recent open consultation meeting, or have subsequently read the transcript, may recall the disagreement between UNDESA and the CSTD over where the UN Secretary-General's recommendations on the continuation of the IGF should be delivered, prior to the UN General Assembly receiving it to make a final decision.<div><br></div><div>UNDESA, which administered the consultations for input to the Secretary-General, proposed to deliver the recommendations directly to ECOSOC. The CSTD, which is actually an expert committee of ECOSOC, thought that it should receive those recommendations first, for consideration at its upcoming May meeting.<div><br></div><div>The relevance of this to us is that the CSTD is open to a broader range of civil society and private sector observers than ECOSOC, including all those entities that were accredited at WSIS. So for civil society, if we wish to give comment on the Secretary-General's recommendations, it is better that they go to the CSTD first.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone think we should make a statement on this?<br><div>
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