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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div>Dear Oksana,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm happy to have Your colleague at this conference. And I'm following the events in Ukraine like many of my colleagues with fears and hopes that a sustainable solution can be found. As an international layer I'm shocked by the blatant violation of international legal rules. As You might know the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Kurz, has just been in Kiev in his capacity as the chair of the CoE.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the agenda of the conference on "Shaping the digital environment – ensuring our rights on the Internet", it was determined by the Council of Europe together with the Austrian government, we in Graz are only the local co-organizers.</div><div><br></div><div>There will be a lifestream available, on which I will inform soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div><br></div><div>Wolfgang Benedek</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><br></p></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">Von: </span> Oksana Prykhodko <<a href="mailto:sana.pryhod@gmail.com">sana.pryhod@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Datum: </span> Montag, 10. März 2014 23:10<br><span style="font-weight:bold">An: </span> "<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>>, Universität Graz <<a href="mailto:wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at">wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Betreff: </span> Re: [governance] Internet Rights Conference in Graz on 13 and 14 March<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dear Mr. <span class="" style="">Benedek</span>,<div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for your letter. It was extremely important for me to participate in your conference, but, unfortunately, just now Ukraine is in position of informational war, and on the brink of physical war. I have to be here (in Ukraine) now.</div><div><br></div><div>I am very happy that my Ukrainian colleague - <span class="" style="">Andrii</span> <span class="" style="">Paziuk</span> - is invited to your conference. But I do not see him in the program of the conference.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not see also any other participants from Ukraine in your program. Are you going to discuss any Digital Future for Europe without (at least) taking into consideration latest events in Ukraine? It's not about Ukraine in EU. It's about situation in Europe after latest events in Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>I would be very happy to receive your personal feedback asap,</div><div><br></div><div>Best <span class="" style="">regards</span> from Ukraine,</div><div><span class="" style="">Oksana</span> <span class="" style="">Prykhodko</span>,</div><div>director of <span class="" style="">iNGO</span> European Media Platform</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:28 AM, <span class="" style="">Benedek</span>, Wolfgang (<span class="" style="">wolfgang</span>.<span class="" style="">benedek</span>@uni-<span class="" style="">graz</span>.at) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at" target="_blank"><span class="" style="">wolfgang</span>.<span class="" style="">benedek</span>@uni-<span class="" style="">graz</span>.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div>Dear all, </div><div>may I draw Your attention to a pertinent conference on<span style="font-size:14px"> </span><span style="line-height: 29px; text-align: center; color: rgb(54, 95, 145); font-family: Candara, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; ">Shaping the Digital Environment, </span><span style="line-height: 29px; text-align: center; color: rgb(54, 95, 145); font-family: Candara, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; ">Ensuring our Rights on the Internet</span> organized by the Council of Europe and the Austrian Chairmanship of the CoE together with the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy of the University of Graz on 13 and 14 March 2014 in Graz. </div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px">See program under: <a href="http://www.coe.int/t/informationsociety/Config2014/GRAZ_Programme_13_February-2014_online%20.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.coe.int/t/informationsociety/Config2014/GRAZ_Programme_13_February-2014_online%20.pdf</a></div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px">Please, register under: <a href="http://www.coe.int/t/informationsociety/Config2014/default_en.asp" target="_blank">http://www.coe.int/t/informationsociety/Config2014/default_en.asp</a></div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:medium">We would be happy to see many of You here!</span></div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px">Wolfgang Benedek</div><div style="font-size:16px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt"></p><div>Prof.Dr.Wolfgang Benedek</div><div>European Training and Research Centre</div><div>on Human Rights and Democracy</div><div>of the University of Graz (UNI-ETC)</div><div>Elisabethstrasse 50B</div><div>A-8010 Graz, Austria</div><div><br></div><p></p></div></div><br>____________________________________________________________<br>
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