Dear De,<div><br></div><div>Let me join the rest in saying thank you for your leadership as a co-coordinator. You did such a great job and we hope you continue contributing as you always have. </div><div><br></div><div>Wishing Analia and Arsene the best in the coordination role. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Sarah <br><br>On Saturday, 12 March 2016, Deirdre Williams <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dear Friends and Colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">First of all, congratulations to Arsene and good luck with your new
"job". </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thanks to Carlos and Akinremi – please stay interested and active.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">From me thank you especially to Mawaki and Analia, but also to everyone
else who helped supported and encouraged me over that last two years. And thank
you for all the good wishes you are sending now.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I was going to say that I hope the IGC will keep together because now
particularly civil society needs to present a united front to the world, but of
course that’s not so. The extent to which civil society can contrive to
remember its shared human values in spite of the diversity of its approaches to
the preservation and protection of those values is always the extent to which a
balance can be achieved in the life of the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I’m a great one for varied perspectives and balance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Best wishes to all</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Deirdre</span></p><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979</div>
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