From the full article below:
> The president of the preparatory committee, Adama Samassekou,
> announced that the work on the action plan will be carried further on a
> regional basis before the third PrepCom meeting in Geneva in September.
Angela, YJ, Chat, Adam and others in Paris: exactly what does this mean
("...on a regional basis...")?
----- Original Message -----
From: Ralf Bendrath <bendrath@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To: wsis-cs-plenary <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 12:25 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Intersessional Meeting ends with Contested Draft
Summit Declaration
> Intersessional Meeting ends with Contested Draft Summit Declaration
> Civil Society inclusion was not enough
>
> Paris, 18 July 2003. This afternoon, the Paris intersessional meeting
> ended with little more results than were already in place yesterday. The
> summit declaration is still a draft working document with a whole number
> of bracketed (i.e. not agreed upon) paragraphs and formulations. The
> action plan was not even discussed in depth. A new draft Declaration was
> be distributed, which incorporates some views from observers. A second
> document was also distributed reflecting discussion of the plan of
> action. The president of the preparatory committee, Adama Samassekou,
> announced that the work on the action plan will be carried further on a
> regional basis before the third PrepCom meeting in Geneva in September.
> A refined version of the draft action plan will be released on the ITU
> website by 23 of August. The morning session in the plenary was
> dominated by strong statements from civil society representatives.
> Meryem Marzouki from the Human Rights Caucus, speaking on behalf of the
> Civil Society Plenary, voiced the "profound sense of disappointment and
> frustration" felt by many civil society participants. More...
>
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