<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Thank you Peter for that information. <br>I support this attitude taken by Germany : An open and multistakeholder discussion about those ITRs before signing. <br>I wish other nations would do the same. <br><br>Regards<br><div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div>NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul<br>TRAINER IN COMPUTING AND INTERNET POLICY<br><br></div><div>ISOC BURUNDI : VICE PRESIDENT<br>Réseau des Télécentres Communautaires du Burundi : Président<br>www.rtcb.bi</div><br><br><div>Burundi Youth Training Centre : Secrétaire Général<br>www.bytc.bi</div><br><div><br></div><div>Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/jeanpaul.nkurunziza<br>Tel : +257 79 981459<br> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr">
<font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Peter H. Hellmonds <peter.hellmonds@hellmonds.eu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Vendredi 14 décembre 2012 23h54<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> [governance] WCIT - German Government Statement - not signing!<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv756324558"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv756324558WordSection1"><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Germany has made a public press release explaining the reasons for not signing the ITRs.</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Please see the statement (in German):</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bmwi.de/DE/Presse/pressemitteilungen,did=542914.html">http://www.bmwi.de/DE/Presse/pressemitteilungen,did=542914.html</a></span></div><div
class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Google Translation (with some edits by myself to fix grammar etc):</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:#4C5A6D;text-transform:uppercase;">PRESS RELEASE</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;">14.12.2012</span></b></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"
style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Verdana", "sans-serif";color:#6B7581;">Germany will not sign the new International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs)</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:#6B7581;">Government aims first at broad social dialogue on the decisions taken at the ITU conference</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="margin-right:12.0pt;background:#E5EDF2;"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"><img id="yiv756324558Bild_x0020_1" src="cid:1.1735050201@web133203.mail.ir2.yahoo.com" alt="Laptop and globe; Source: colourbox.com" border="0" height="210" width="280"></span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="margin-right:12.0pt;background:#E5EDF2;"><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:#484949;">© colourbox.com</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;">At the conference of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.bmwi.de/DE/Themen/Digitale-Welt/internationale-dimension,did%3D360648.html&usg=ALkJrhiJ2PxoubPSMJCjQ8YyWNHFNNh56Q"><span style="color:#0975BA;">International Telecommunication Union (ITU)</span></a> in Dubai, negotiations ended today on a redesign of the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs).</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;background:white;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;">The federal government entered into the international negotiations with the clear position to preserve the freedom of the global Internet and to prevent an expansion of the scope of the ITRs to the Internet. In cooperation with the EU Member States, the federal government has consistently pursued its central aim of the negotiations on the ITU conference, and together with the United States and many other countries - with the involvement of participants from civil society - kept Internet issues out of the draft ITRs.</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;background:white;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;">Yet in the final ITR text, submitted for approval, there remain blurred passages, as in the texts on security and combating spam, and those covering risks of government intervention in the Internet. Therefore, Germany has not signed the ITRs, just as the EU countries, the U.S. and others.</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",
"sans-serif";color:black;">Several, especially African, Arab and Asian countries have also pushed through a resolution on "Internet" in the negotiations in Dubai, giving the ITU a mandate for further work in the area of management of the Internet. The resolution is not legally binding, and was not put to the substantive discussion by the chairman of the conference, so that the non-signatory states had no influence reflecting their interests.</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;">The Federal Government will explain and discuss the text of the new ITRs in a broad social dialogue. For
this purpose there will be discussions with companies, representatives of civil society and other stakeholders in Germany in the near future. The aim of the Federal Government is to allow all stakeholders sufficient time for a comprehensive analysis to avoid quick fixes in this sensitive area.</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;">The new ITRs will apply provisionally only to those countries that sign them. For all other countries the existing ITRs from 1988 will continue to apply. The ultimate fate of the new ITRs depends on how many countries actually ratify or accede.</span></div><div
class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">-------------</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Thanks to all those in Germany who helped to assure this clear line.</span></div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div class="yiv756324558MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",
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