[governance] REVISION 5 Draft statement to UNSG on bypassing

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Looks ok to me as well.

--c.a.

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On 24/02/2010, at 00:44, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

>
> This looks fine, Jeremy.
> A very minor issue: please refer to "Sharm" as Sharm-el Sheik, Egypt.
>
> -------
> On 23 February 2010 05:37, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org<mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org 
> >> wrote:
> I am planning to open a 48 hours consensus call on this (or  
> something very like it) later in the week.  At this point, most of  
> the changes being suggested seem to be just changing the order or  
> emphasis of points on which we are already agreed.  I am omitting  
> the address and such from the top of the letter, but they will be  
> included when it is sent.  Also to avoid doubt, the subject line of  
> this thread will not be part of our message to the UNSG.
>
> AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE INTERNET GOVERNANCE CAUCUS TO THE UNITED  
> NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL, BAN KI-MOON
>
> Your Excellency,
>
> The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) congratulates you  
> on the completion and imminent delivery of your report and  
> recommendations on the desirability of the continuation of the  
> Internet Governance Forum (IGF), based on formal consultations at  
> IGF Sharm.
>
> We request that in the interest of an open and transparent process,  
> and in accordance with established practice, these recommendations  
> be made available to the annual session of the Committee on Science  
> and Technology for Development (CSTD) in May 2010.
>
> Our request is in line with the views expressed by several  
> government delegates at the open consultations on the IGF held in  
> February 2010, to the effect that your report and recommendations  
> should be presented to the CSTD before being considered by the  
> ECOSOC and then by the UN Assembly.
>
> The CSTD is formally mandated to engage with all issues of WSIS  
> follow up, and its specialized knowledge and history of engagement  
> with WSIS issues, including the IGF, will provide the best basis for  
> an informed consideration of the issue by the ECOSOC and the UN  
> Assembly.
>
> The CSTD also provides relatively greater multistakeholder  
> involvement than its parent body, ECOSOC, following its  
> "strengthening ... taking into account the multistakeholder  
> approach"  (Tunis Agenda, para 105) pursuant to ECOSOC decisions  
> 2007/215, 2007/216, 2008/217 and 2008/218.
>
> We also respectfully remind you that your report on "enhanced  
> cooperation" which was presented to the ECOSOC has been referred by  
> the ECOSOC to the CSTD for its prior consideration.  This suggests  
> that ECOSOC would normally prefer CSTD's views on issues of WSIS  
> follow up before it considers them.
>
> Absent any reason for a departure from established practice, we  
> therefore believe that your report and recommendations should be  
> presented to the CSTD to enable widest possible discussion
> and engagement of all actors with this very important issue.
>
> Thank you for your consideration of this suggestion, for your  
> leadership, and for your ongoing support of civil society's  
> participation at the Internet Governance Forum.
>
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