AW: [governance] Fwd: Final composition of the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation

[parminder]

On Tuesday 26 March 2013 10:03 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
> Hi
>   
> congratulations to the selected CS members, however I am very surprised to see two CS reps from Asia (Joy & Parminder) but nobody from Europe (the proposal from the focul point was Bill). Any explanation for this unbalanced selection?

Wolfgang

Apart from the fact that your experience and engagements in this area 
will qualify you to be a part of any such group in any case, I make the 
following point purely about geographic distribution of CS (civil 
society) membership of the group and your claim of 'unbalanced selection'.

You may have noted from the CSTD Chair's initial note on forming this WG 
(working group) that it considered five regional areas as follows: 
Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, 'Latin America and Caribbean' and 'Western 
Europe and other states'. For the membership of the 'Western Europe and 
other states' category see http://www.un.org/esa/govwest.htm .

Now if we go by this categorisation - there is one from Africa, one from 
Asia, none from Eastern Europe, one from 'Latin America and Caribbean' 
and two from 'Western Europe and other states' (Avri from the US and Joy 
from New Zealand).

So, no, New Zealand is not in Asia, and there is no over-representation 
from Asia. (BTW Asia has close to 60 percent of world's population). In 
fact over representation is from 'Western Asia and other states' group.

However, the Chair seemed to have followed the above five region formula 
only for governmental representation and for civil society he asked 
simply for 3 from developing countries and 3 from developed, to choose 
the final 5. Now that you raise the issue, I am not entirely sure if I 
agree with the civil society focal point having forwarded a slate of 8 - 
with 3 from developing countries and 5 from developed. That is what can 
more clearly be called as 'unbalanced selection' i think especially 
since among the 20 people who applied there were a lot of good names 
from developing countries. BTW, I dont  know whether the imbalance came 
from the 6 names that emerged out of the 'selection committee process' 
or from the 2 additions to these names done by the focal point.

parminder







>   
> Thanks
>   
> wolfgang
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> Von:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org  im Auftrag von Anriette Esterhuysen
> Gesendet: Di 26.03.2013 17:25
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> Betreff: [governance] Fwd: Final composition of the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation
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> Composition of the Working Group. All the best to those who have been
> selected. Note that meetings are likely to be open for observers
>
> Anriette
>
>
> Dear members of the CSTD and other colleagues,
>
> As a follow up to my e-mail and Note on Composition and Guidelines for the
> CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation, which I distributed on 13
> February 2013, I am pleased to inform you of the final composition of the
> Working Group in the attached Note. I also am happy to report that Mr.
> Peter Major, Vice-Chair of the CSTD from Hungary, has agreed to serve as
> Chair of the Working Group.
>
> I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the designated focal
> points for each regional and stakeholder group, for their efforts in
> facilitating consultations on their respective representatives, which was
> very useful for me in establishing the Working Group, keeping in mind
> paragraph 21 of the General Assembly resolution 67/195.
>
> There were many expressions of interest from people with substantial
> relevant expertise, which made selecting the representatives a challenging
> exercise. It was not possible to include all requests for membership in
> the Working Group.
>
> The Rules of Procedure of the ECOSOC and its Functional Commissions shall
> govern the work of the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation. Discussions
> should be open and transparent and respect all proposals and opinions. The
> report of the Working Group will be adopted by consensus.
>
> I intend to have the meetings of the Working Group be open for observers,
> including Member States regardless of whether or not they are members of
> the CSTD, and representatives of business, civil society, technical and
> academic communities as well as other international and intergovernmental
> organizations. Observer privileges will be in accordance with the Rules of
> Procedure of the ECOSOC and its Functional Commissions.
>
> Now that the Working Group membership and chairmanship have been
> determined, Mr. Peter Major will follow up shortly regarding preparations
> for the first meeting of the Working Group.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
>
> Miguel Palomino de la Gala
> Chairman, the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development
>
>
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