Last night, Tadahisa Hamada, Jaba Menon and myself were invited for
an informal dinner of the drafting committee of the Tokyo declraration
hosted by Japanese government. All members of the committee
except representative from Government of China participated.
They were (if I remember), Governments of Australia and India
and Japan, GIIC, UNDP, GKP, 3 of us, Ministry of Public Management,
Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunication and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (MoFA) of Japan.
At almost the end of the dinner, a new version of declaration was
distributed. I requested to send a soft copy (file) to us so that we can
share more easily and effectively, but the chiar of the committee,
Mr. Morimoto of MOFA, asked us to keep it within the committee
members until likely tonight, sensitive to other governments.
We have to follow the rule, but we can still do "informal consultation".
The first meeting of the committee will be held 2 pm this afternoon.
Unfortunately, I cannot attend that since I am on the UNDP panel
at the same time, but Hamada-san, my alternate can. We need
the inputs and feedbacks at least by then. For that, I have
prepared some hard copies of the latest version for your review.
An informal but open session for the drafting of this declaration
is scheduled in tomorrow afternoon, followed by the wrap-up
session, and likely a committee meeting to finalize it during
or after dinner tomorrow.
At my first glance, the draft seems much improved, or revised
quite, but still lacks a number of important issues pertinent
to NGO/NPO civil society in this region. I welcome your
specific and explicit suggestions and additions or alterations,
written in text, with, if possible, rationales.
Thanks for your hard work ;-).
izumi
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