[bestbits] [governance] Remarks at UNESCO Closing Ceremony of "Connecting the Dots Conference"

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On Mar 5, 2015, at 1:46 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> 
> I would like to hereby state clearly that what Jeremy claims is JNC's
> view of "democratic multi-stakeholderism" is not an actual position of
> JNC.
> 
> For JNC, "democratic" simply means: democratic.
> 
> We insist that just like governance at national levels must be
> democratic (which has been internationally accepted as a human right,
> even if there are countries where this is not currently implemented
> satisfactorily), any and all global governance must also be democratic.

Notwithstanding the obvious circularity of that statement, if this means that you no longer support para 35 of the Tunis Agenda, and that Parminder misspoke when he supported it, then it's good to have finally established that.  Nonetheless, Anriette has effectively confirmed, with her note of the negotiations, my reading of the meaning of the text for which you are pushing in UN circles.  So will you be backing away from that text now, too?

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