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[Jeanette Hofmann]

have to run and cannot say much more than I did, so just this: the 
notion of a core assumes that there will be something beyond that core. 
Do we want the secretariat to grow beyond a core and if so, why?

I find the idea of a rotating secretariat dangerous because that makes 
it vulnerable to the institutional competition between various UN 
organizations.

jeanette

karen banks wrote:
> hi jeanette
> 
> could you say a little more on this? as we had entertained the idea of 
> at least an element of the secretariat function rotating - i'm not even 
> sure what that could mean,  certainly, that there be a permanent core of 
> the secretariat that remains firmly fixed..
> 
> karen
> 
>> Some months ago I would have supported the concept of a distributed
>> secretariat. I remember Avri and I discussing the idea to have a
>> rotating secretariat moving from one international org to another. Today
>> I'd say this is a recipe for desaster. We have to keep in mind that
>> these international organizations are competing for tasks and are
>> disagreeing in terms of regulatory paradigms.
>>
>> What I find much more important today is that the secretariat takes a
>> neutral stance on such matters and tries to remain light-weight. Ideas
>> like distributed secretariat should be considered in the future once the
>> forum is a well established, widely acknowledged institution.
> 
> 
> 
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