[governance] Azerbaijan

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 28/09/2011, at 11:25 PM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK wrote:

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> What a nice and gentle CS ! In exchange of a "low cost IGF" they will keep their eyes wide shut on HR in the "host" country and even put away their banners. 


Actually we were quite forceful in our discussion, but we were unable to reverse the decision without offering an alternative.  No other country was willing to host for next year (yes I know there were discussions about France, but, I checked, these had not borne fruit in time).

As for putting away the banners, there were never plans for a demonstration, but if there had been, the demonstrators would have been arrested and not allowed to re-enter the IGF venue this year.  On balance that would have been counterproductive.

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