[governance] China: "we don't agree that the IGF should continue"

Roland Perry roland at internetpolicyagency.com
Fri May 15 09:04:52 EDT 2009


In message <701af9f70905150353iefa393fq50a3b33117919290 at mail.gmail.com>, 
at 17:53:18 on Fri, 15 May 2009, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> 
writes
>Being in the open consultation, I would like to elaborate just for the
>sake of it that there is a political process behind the understanding
>of an IGF and the countries do take the final decision at the UN
>general assembly and I doubt that any of these statements reflect the
>final decision of the general assembly that takes the vote of all its
>member countries.

The member countries will be voting on a recommendation from the 
Secretary General, which has previously been passed by CSTD/ECOSOC.

How often do such recommendations get reversed in General Assembly (a 
genuine question)?
-- 
Roland Perry
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