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<excerpt><bold>From: </bold>Ralf Bendrath

<<ralf.bendrath@sfb597.uni-bremen.de>

<bold>Date: </bold>Thu Oct 2, 2003  20:10:38 Asia/Bangkok

<bold>To: </bold>plenary@wsis-cs.org

<bold>Subject: </bold>[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: press statement (again) -

CS critique - what next?

<bold>Reply-To: </bold>plenary@wsis-cs.org

Arne and all,

just a brief clarification to one point:

<excerpt>2. In our response to the draft declaration, we have agreed

on basic

principles, which were emphasised as "non-negotiables" by the

content&themes group, 

</excerpt>(...)

<excerpt>How do we define exactly when the borderline

regarding these "non-negotiables" is crossed, 

</excerpt>

Just for the sake of empirical data - as I wrote in my final commentary

on the PrepCom on Friday night: 

"The numerous inputs from civil society made over the last two weeks

and

before have not led to many results. A group of volunteers had already

shown for a previous version of the draft declaration that only a small

number of civil society inputs and suggestions had been reflected in

the

document. Yesterday night, PrepCom president Adama Samassekou had

approached the chairs of civil society´s content and themes group and

asked for a list of essentials that would make sure civil society can

support the final summit declaration. The short list handed over to him

later in the evening consisted only of the $B'O(Bon-negotiables“. These =

are

the really essential demands from civil society groups and are only an

extremely small part of all the suggestions made over the last year. Of

these 31 proposals, only 4 - that is 13 per cent - have been included

in

the latest draft declaration. 42 per cent – 13 proposals – have been

rejected, and more than half of them – 55 per cent or 14 suggestions -

are still not agreed upon with little chance of getting them through."

(http://www.worldsummit2003.org)

So much for the facts. I think we can seriously decide this after

PrepCom3A, when the unclear situation of the remaining square brackets

will have to be solved.

But I agree: We should _think_ about an exit-strategy before...

Ralf

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