AW: [governance] REVISION 3 Draft statement to UNSG on bypassing

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

No Yrjö, this should be very underlined. Refering to governments and other stakeholders - (private sector, technical community?) would give the statement more power. If we just articulate us ourselves as CS this will be widely ignored by the UN burocracy. Unfortunately this is the fact. I remember it was the joint CS/PS statement in Geneva in September 2005 which finally convinced Ambassador Kahn to continue the negotiations in the plenary (with non governmental stakeholders in the room) instead of creating a negotaition group of govenrments which would have excluded CS and others.
 
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Von: Yrjö Länsipuro [mailto:yrjo_lansipuro at hotmail.com]
Gesendet: Do 18.02.2010 12:52
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org; jeremy at ciroap.org
Cc: williams.deirdre at gmail.com
Betreff: RE: [governance] REVISION 3 Draft statement to UNSG on bypassing


I could certainly live with all alternatives we are now discussing. They all convey the same message, with different emphasis on our main points. 

I'm quite attracted by Parminder's new text, because it is short and starts from the fact that many governments already opposed cutting out the CSTD. This way, joining our voices with other stakeholders, our statement might carry more weight than otherwise. 

However, maybe I'm biased, having worn the government hat for so long....


Yrjö



 

> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:34:52 +0000
> From: jeanette at wzb.eu
> To: jeremy at ciroap.org
> CC: governance at lists.cpsr.org; williams.deirdre at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [governance] REVISION 3 Draft statement to UNSG on bypassing
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I agree with Deidre that we shouldn't use a statement to explain 
> matters. Particularly, we shouldn't explain UN procedures including 
> timing in a statement to the UNSG. Therefore, I would take only the 
> following para from Parminder's text and integrate it, perhaps after 
> rewriting it a bit to make it sound polite:
> 
> We therefore request that in the interest of an open and transparent 
> process, UN Secretary General's report on continuation of the IGF be 
> made available to the CSTD's annual session in May 2010, which will help 
> the 'UN membership' make an informed and considered decision on this 
> matter as per the requirements of the Tunis Agenda.
> 
> jeanette
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> > On 18/02/2010, at 7:04 PM, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
> > 
> >> I support Deidre's reasoning (for dropping para 5) and her suggestions.
> > 
> > Then we have you and Deirdre who don't want paragraph 5 and Yrjö, Wolfgang et al who do.
> > 
> > We also have Parminder who has contributed a completely different text (and I don't think there's any point in integrating it with the existing text, because it's written as a complete alternative).
> > 
> > I now need to know what each of you can live with. Jeanette and Deirdre, could you live with paragraph 5? Others, could you live with losing it?
> > 
> > All, could you live with Parminder's draft instead of the one we've been discussing, or Parminder could you live with the original one?
> > 
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