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    <p>The UN General Assembly mandated Working Group on Enhanced
      Cooperation (on international Internet related public policies)
      which was tasked to develop institutional means for appropriate
      governance of the global Internet folded up yesterday after 4
      years of work ( 2 years each of two versions) without making any
      recommendation. I wrote the following email to the group that lays
      out how I see the group's work, especially its failure to come up
      with any recommendation...<br>
      <br>
      parminder </p>
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            <td>thanks, goodbye, and a few reflections on WGEC</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap">Date: </th>
            <td>Thu, 1 Feb 2018 19:22:35 +0530</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap">From: </th>
            <td>parminder <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:parminder.js@gmail.com"><parminder.js@gmail.com></a></td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap">To: </th>
            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:CSTD-WGEC@unctad.org">CSTD-WGEC@unctad.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:CSTD-WGEC@unctad.org"><CSTD-WGEC@unctad.org></a>, stdev
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:stdev@unctad.org"><stdev@unctad.org></a></td>
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      <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3">Dear All</font></font></p>
      <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3">As the two years of WGEC end (4 for me, continuing
            from the last WGEC), one departs with a lot of learning,
            growth and good memoires. Thank you all for being a part of
            it. I wish to say farewell to all, till we meet again!</font></font></p>
      <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3">On the work side: after a night’s sleep over it,
            this is what I feel about the WGEC’s work.</font></font></p>
      <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3">There were promising exciting moments in the last
            hours. If these could have come earlier it might just have
            been possible for us to have made some progress. But then,
            unfortunately, they did not. In the end, my summative
            assessment is as follows. It would have been nice to have
            had a report, but it is more truthful that there isnt one.
            That is the true reflection of the state of affairs. And
            while we have responsibilities to ourselves and to the group
            of nice-ness and collegiality, there is a much higher
            responsibility of telling the undiluted truth to the global
            public. </font></font> </p>
      <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3">And the truth is that on the matter of how public
            governance of the global Internet and the digital phenomenon
            should be undertaken in the UN, we today are even more apart
            then we were even at the WSIS. A good proof of it comes from
            examining what was the central piece of the excitement of
            the last hours yesterday (an excitement, I admit, I shared
            in the room at that time.). At Tunis, the global community
            could agree that (1) the current mechanisms of global public
            governance of the Internet were inadequate ( <span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">T</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">unis Agenda</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">, para 6</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">0), and (2) urgent further work is needed
                      that </span></span></span></font></span>“<span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">could envisage creation of a suitable
                      framework or mechanisms…” ( para 61). Seventeen
                      years after WSIS, </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">when the</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> Internet/ digital has transformed the
                      world beyond what anyone could </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">have</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> imagine</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">d</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> in Tunis, </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">and there are </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">unthinkably </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">monumental governance needs and
                      challenges, </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">a weak formulation </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">that we can continue to consider “the
                      possibility of new [institutional approaches]” was
                      offered as the “big” (and the only) carrot. </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">That too only in the last few hours.</span></span></span></font></span></font></font></p>
      <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
                color="#333333"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">And then is was quickly withdrawn, </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">seemingly</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> in exchange of putting, in a portion of
                      the report </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">that </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">mention</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">ed</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> “the </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">key</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> issues discussed” (and of course non
                      agreed ), a para or two each of </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">the </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">two key divergent positions on the need </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">for</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> new institutional development. </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">This would just have been a factual
                      statement of what actually got presented and
                      discussed, but not agreed.</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> While I myself shared in the excited
                      possibility of us getting some agreement somehow,
                      it is evident that this was much less that what </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">the Tunis Agenda a</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">lready mentions. </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">Although it </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">is admittedly</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> better that what has eve</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">r</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> got into the texts since then, which was
                      why </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">some of us were</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> ready to take it, until the offer got
                      withdrawn. </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">This is where the negotiations collapsed,
                      as time was in any case not on our side. </span></span></span></font></span></font></font>
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      <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
                color="#333333"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">A “no report” therefore conveys the fact
                      of the matter more truthfully to our constituents
                      that a report that, apologies the for dismissive
                      tone, but, honestly, largely said things to the
                      effect that “people in the world should be more
                      honest </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">and friendly</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">”. Would </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">such a report</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> have </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">represented</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> progress? Not in my view. It </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">w</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">ould more likely have been a smoke screen
                      of </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">seeming</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> progress on </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">the </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">subject, for some unnecessary months or
                      years, </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">which would have only</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> retard</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">ed</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> urgent consideration of this most
                      important global public policy imperative, </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">which</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> is required right now</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">. </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">We are already late in fact.</span></span></span></font></span></font></font></p>
      <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
                color="#333333"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">So rather than rue that we could not agree
                      to some weak and largely meaningless report </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">regarding</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> how global public governance of the
                      Internet (and </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">the </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">digital phenomenon) should be done, let us
                      be satisfied that we </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">put in</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> our best efforts </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">to converge</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">, and then honestly </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">we </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">let the world know that there does </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">not</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> yet exist </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">the </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">political will to develop appropriate
                      global mechanism</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">s</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> of public </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">governance of the Internet. </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">E</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">ven in tragedy, </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">h</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">onestly serves better that superfluous
                      make-believes </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">that</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> could elevate </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">one’s</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> spirits temporarily. </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">The</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> public interest is served best by stating
                      the actual fact, </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">and we did that by the act of “no report”</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">. </span></span></span></font></span></font></font>
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      <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
                color="#333333"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">I </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">much </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">thank Amb Benedicto for his exceptionally
                      patient, inclusive and capable handling of a very
                      difficult discussion. Special kudos for the
                      secretariat for providing high quality
                      professional </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">help</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> that never slipped, </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">which let</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> our work go </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">on so</span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> smoothly.</span></span></span></font></span></font></font></p>
      <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
                color="#333333"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal"> </span></span></span></font></span><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#333333"><span
                  style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">And a warm thanks and goodbye to all
                      members.</span></span></span></font></span></font></font></p>
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          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
                color="#333333"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">Best regards</span></span></span></font></span></font></font></p>
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          face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
                color="#333333"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span
                    style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal">parminder </span></span></span></font></span></font></font>
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