Brazilian speech, Dec 17th, morning session CSTD:<br><br>QUOTE<br><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Brazil welcomes the way
out we find today that is discussing ways of involving stakeholders
but always respecting UN rules:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Brazil also would like
to play a constructive role in this, and we believe we could offer to
your consideration Madam Chairperson, two suggestions regarding
transparency and openess:</p>
<ul><ul><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The meetings
should also be fully committed to <b>openess: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">each</span>
chair of each meetings of the working group may invite, for
example, 5 speakers from each stakeholder group which are
recognized in Tunis Agenda - civil society, business sector and
international institutions;
</p>
<ul><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">each
stakeholders present in each session of work could decide
themselves who will be the five representatives, but they will
take into account, whenever possible, the balanced participation
of representatives from developing and developed countries,
including those who are not already registered as observers in UN
or ECOSOC;</p>
</li></ul>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The working group
already defined by you, Madam Chairperson, will have meetings that
are fully committed to <b>transparency – any states, or other
stakeholders may attend the meetings.</b></p>
</li></ul></ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">In order to conclude
Brazil would like to thank you very much, Madam Chairperson, for all
the consultations made about the establishment of this working group:
in vilnius, in last november and december the 6<sup>th. </sup> You
provided us an example of how dealing with a such a complex process in a transparent way, not in a black box approach"</p><br>UNQUOTE<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade<br>FGV Direito Rio<br>
<br>Center for Technology and Society<br>Getulio Vargas Foundation<br>Rio de Janeiro - Brazil<br>