> Message: 2
> From: "Bloem Renate" <rbloem@iprolink.ch>
> To: "CS Plenary" <plenary@wsis-cs.org>,
> "bureau wsis" <bureau@wsis-cs.org>,
> "CS Bureau" <bureau@geneva2003.org>
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 03:31:52 -0700
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Governmental Bureau and First PrepCom
> Reply-To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
>
>
> This was meant to be sent on April 23, when here everything broke down,
> including my computer.
> French and Spanish version will be sent later,
> All best
> Renata
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> The Governmental Bureau met on 21 April in a closed session, at which they
> decided the following that
>
> · the Tunis meeting 24 - 26 June will be the official first PrepCom with
> rules and procedures as in the first phase and an accreditation opened
anew
> for those currently not yet accredited (see also ITU website)
> · current discussions and consultations for a new Chair (proposed Latvia)
to
> be finalized at the next Bureau meeting 10 May . (*)
> · Governments should make proposals, based on their interventions during
the
> Geneva Summit, on expected outcome and roadmap until 21 May to the
> Secretariat. These proposals will probably provide the basis for some
> documents to be discussed at the First PrepCom. From what I heard is that
> some governments want this process to be governmental only in the
beginning,
> while others opted for a more open-ended input. I hope to get more
> clarification soon.
>
> (*) During the previous Bureau meeting 31 March Mr. SamassñÌou had read a
> statement, in which he movingly evoked the ups and downs and great moments
> of the first phase. Mali and he himself would have been ready to continue,
> would it not have been for some governments who claimed reversal: Summit
in
> the South and a Chair from the North. To make the way free for consensus
> agreements in an anyway already difficult process he graciously bowed out.
> CS owes him a lot. The space that grew larger throughout the process would
> have been difficult to obtain without his support. Thank you Mr.
SamassñÌou!
>
>
>
> Today, 23 April, ended the Commission on Human Rights its annual
exhaustive
> 6 -weeks deliberations, see also www.congoHCR.org. and all who
participated
> are at this moment exhausted. Rik will tell you that CONGO will have a new
> Office as of next week.
> With warm greetings,
>