[governance] Fwd: Letter from stakeholders re: Working Group on Improvements to the IGF membership

[Izumi AIZU]

Just came in.

According to the summary, CSTD made this with "clear majority" !! Only US
Government made reservation to the decision. A clear majority with sloppy
process, I would say.

In reality, almost all those present were from Geneva-based permanent
mission people, but of course their degree of involvement with and
understanding of IGF and also contact with their capitals are highly
questionable.

A total of 18 member states joined this meeting:

Argentina, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Ghana, Greece, India, Iran, Israel,
Jordan, Lesotho, Malaysia, Portugal, South Africa, Sudan, Switzerland, USA

Regional breakdown as follows:

Africa 5/11 Asia 5/9  Eastern Europe 0/5 Latin America and Caribbean
2/8  Western
Europe and other states 5/10

(region's total members added to the right side of the slash as
denominator).

"The all members of CSTD" are also only 43 countries elected by ECOSOC for a
term of four years.

See below.
*Region* *Country* *End of term* *Africa*

Mauritius, Rwanda, Togo, and United Republic of Tanzania will become new
members 1 January 2011 Burkina Faso 2010  Democratic Republic of Congo
2012  Equatorial
Guinea 2012 Eritrea 2010  Ghana 2012 Lesotho 2014 Mali 2012  South Africa 2012
 Sudan 2010 Tunisia 2014 Uganda 2010 *Asia* China 2014 India 2014 Iran
(Islamic Republic of) 2014 Jordan 2012 Malaysia 2010 Oman 2012 Pakistan 2012
Philippines 2014 Sri Lanka 2012 *Eastern Europe* Belarus 2010 Latvia
2014 Russian
Federation 2012 Slovakia 2012 Bulgaria 2010 *Latin America and Caribbean*
Peru will become a new member 1 January 2011 Argentina 2010 Brazil 2012
Chile 2012 Costa Rica 2012 Cuba 2014 Dominican Republic 2014 El Salvador
2014 Jamaica 2012 *Western Europe and other states* Austria 2012 Belgium
2010 Finland 2012 France 2010 Germany 2010 Israel 2012 Portugal 2012
Switzerland 2012 Turkey 2010 United States of America 2014

But Swiss CSTD Vice Chair maintains that this is a legitimate decision.

Are there ways to let the same country make different choice if it is
reconvened?  Am not sure.

What would be the most effective ways to reverse this decision? We need
wisdom.

izumi

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:  <Frederic.Riehl at bakom.admin.ch>
Date: 2010/12/14
Subject: RE: Letter from stakeholders re: Working Group on Improvements to
the IGF membership
To: graham at isoc.org

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Dear Mr. Graham

Thank you for your mails in which you express your concern about the
decision on the composition of the Working Group of the Chair of the CSTD on
IGF improvement.

First of all, please let me correct you in the following: The meeting on Dec
6 was not a meeting of the Bureau of the CSTD, but it was a meeting to which
all members of the CSTD were invited. Attached you find a summary of this
meeting which has now been made publicly available on the CSTD website (
http://www.unctad.org/cstd).. As you can see in this summary, there was a
very clear majority in that meeting that led to the decision which was
taken.

What the meeting of Dec. 17 in Geneva is concerned, this meeting is a part
of the CSTD intersessional meeting and will be open not only to the members
of the CSTD, but also to other states and to civil society and business
representatives who have been accredited to WSIS. For other business
entities not accredited to WSIS but wish to participate, please get in touch
with the CSTD secretariat for further information.

Thank you and best regards

Frédéric Riehl
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