[governance] Formal IGC response to IBSA proposal ahead of 18-19 Summit?

[Marilia Maciel]

Dear all,

Sorry for joining the discussion late, but I tried to find out what will be
forwarded to IBSA summit and in what status. As far as I could understand,
from the Brazilian gov: a) the seminar will be acknowledged in the summit b)
there will be a proposal that CS from IBSA participates fully on the
formulation of any proposal of institutional change/mechanism and c) it will
be proposed that wider discussions with CS from the three countries is
carried out to improve IBSA proposal before any further step is taken.

In any case, I think that it does not diminishes the importance of inputs
from IGC, especially if these inputs are aimed at concreteley improving
IBSA´s set of recommendations. In my personal view, there is no other
country/group of countries that is being more open to dialogue about their
position on institutional changes than IBSA, so concrete proposals that the
three countries could take on board would be more useful than making a
statement to solely be against X, Y or Z.

Best wishes,

Marília

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> **
> On 08/10/11 10:14, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
>  I edited my earlier comments, here is the revised version:
>
>
> I like this, though probably we can lose the UN-style wording of the
> preamble (I wrote my first IGC statement in the same way, but others pointed
> out that as CS we don't need to imitate the intergovernmental style).
>
>
> *Acknowledging* that the WGIG in its 2005 report concluded that there is
> merit in improving institutional coordination as well as coordination among
> all stakeholders at the regional, subregional and national levels, the IGC
> believes that this does not justify the creation of an institution[s1] ;
>
>
> This may be too strong?  Last year, we wrote in a consensus statement that
> "It is imperative that this [governance] deficit continue to be addressed
> through the existing institutions, and where appropriate through new
> institutional developments that comply with the accepted process criteria of
> being open, accountable, transparent, democratic and inclusive."
>
>
>  [Suggestion to IGC: We can hold a white monkey survey and take a vote on
> the issue – although we should be prepared for the results]
>
>
> I agree that this could be helpful, so I propose to add an optional section
> about these issues to the upcoming coordinator election poll, after the vote
> for coordinator, so as not to bother people with multiple polls in a short
> space of time.  This will make it easier to draft a short statement that, as
> Carlos said, is proactive in suggesting improvements rather than just
> harping on the negatives of the IBSA proposal.  Even if we miss the Summit
> dates, it will be useful to have this up our sleeves for later.
>
> --
>
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