[governance] some points

[Vittorio Bertola]

Izumi AIZU ha scritto:
> It might be easier, we felt in the end, that we can establish some
> kind of general framework and mandate under which a number
> of us could act as a focal point or liaison persons to quickly
> summarize the situation, make short interventions, with the
> previously agreed framework on substantive issues.

I agree. I found it worrying that, in the main plenary and in front of 
all top governmental officers, Ayesha on behalf of the private sector 
could make a very timely statement taking stance against the "Chair's 
food for thought", while Avri had to stick to the agreed text and thus 
base our comments to the Argentinian paper that was the hot thing at 
noon, but was already out of the headlines at 7pm when she would 
eventually speak. Avri and Karen made a great work not to make our 
statements look irrelevant and out of timing, but unfortunately they did 
not know how much room for change they had.

I think we need to give some clear mandate for timely reaction to some 
well specified individuals (i.e. the coordinators, I think). It will be 
up to them to understand what can be said without going against what was 
previously agreed by the caucus, and where to refrain from commenting. 
Actually, that's what governmental delegations do, if you substitute 
higher rank diplomatic officers to the caucus.

> Of course,there are certain areas and issues that we do not have
> clear consensus and have very different standpoints, I think that
> is natural and not negative, but we can be carefully confine
> our interventions to avoid stepping into these touchy areas and
> still making good impacts.

Precisely. If coordinators make a mistake and enter into such areas 
taking a position that cannot be supported, we can kick them later. But 
this requires a lot of courage from them, and a lot of understanding 
from the others.
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