[Media Caucus] Fw: [hr-wsis] Next WSIS meetings

[John Barker]

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From: "Meryem Marzouki" <marzouki at ras.eu.org>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>; <ct at wsis-cs.org>; <wsis-euc at fsfeurope.org>
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Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 7:32 PM
Subject: [hr-wsis] Next WSIS meetings


> Hi all,
>
> This morning I was at a panel making a briefing on the WSIS process
> during an event organized by French groups on Intellectual Property
> (see http://www.i3c-asso.org/article.php3?id_article=384 for the
> programme - its in French).
>
> At this panel, Jean-François Soupizet, from the European Commission and
> head of this delegation at WSIS, made a briefing on the governments
> point of view, and he confirmed that the next meetings will be:
>
> - PrepCom3A, as we already knwo now
> - Most probably a high-level negociation session (either at the heads
> of states "sherpas" or at the ministerial level), on December 8 and 9
> - During WSIS, each session involving heads of states will devote 1
> hour to observers speaking slots (including civil society)
>
> Of course, these information need official written confirmation.
>
> This would mean :
> 1/ That final texts will be negociated on WSIS eve (!), in closed
> sessions
> 2/ That we have to start seriously discussing, in the content and
> themes group, how we could use in the best possible way the speaking
> slots that will be attributed to CS. i.e.: which issues would be
> highlighted this way.
>
> Meryem
>
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