[governance] Secretary-General's recommendations on the

[Fouad Bajwa]

Yes, I too support the notion for a statement!

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Yrjö Länsipuro
<yrjo_lansipuro at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I think there should be a statement.
> After the UNDESA representative declared at the IGF consultations that it
> was "not our intention to submit the report to the CSTD", there were
> immediate reactions from other stateholders, many (European) governments as
> well as from private sector representatives, asking for explanation why CSTD
> would be cut out of the process.
> The mandate and role of the CSTD in reviewing and assessing the
> implementation of WSIS outcomes is anchored in decisions by WSIS and ECOSOC,
> and well established in 2007-2009 when it annually drafted the  ECOSOC
> resolutions on the WSIS follow-up, including asessments on the perfortmance
> of the IGF. There is no reason for a sudden departure from this process on
> the question of the continuation of the IGF.
> As a former representative of Finland on CSTD (until my retirement last
> summer) I can confirm  that civil society and private sector representatives
> have much better access and opportunity to influence the proceedings at the
> CSTD than at the ECOSOC level. In fact, the ECOSOC decisions that opened
> CSTD up to other stakeholders speak about "participating in the work" of it,
> rather than just observing.
> Yrjö Länsipuro
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: jeremy at ciroap.org
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:15:58 -0500
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: [governance] Secretary-General's recommendations on the
> continuation of the IGF
>
> Those who were at the recent open consultation meeting, or have subsequently
> read the transcript, may recall the disagreement between UNDESA and the CSTD
> over where the UN Secretary-General's recommendations on the continuation of
> the IGF should be delivered, prior to the UN General Assembly receiving it
> to make a final decision.
> UNDESA, which administered the consultations for input to the
> Secretary-General, proposed to deliver the recommendations directly to
> ECOSOC.  The CSTD, which is actually an expert committee of ECOSOC, thought
> that it should receive those recommendations first, for consideration at its
> upcoming May meeting.
> The relevance of this to us is that the CSTD is open to a broader range of
> civil society and private sector observers than ECOSOC, including all those
> entities that were accredited at WSIS.  So for civil society, if we wish to
> give comment on the Secretary-General's recommendations, it is better that
> they go to the CSTD first.
> Does anyone think we should make a statement on this?
>
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