[Media Caucus] Summit questions / UNHR Note on Info Soc.

[Victor van Oeyen]

CAN I MAKE A STUPID CUESTION? WHO IS SHASI THAROOR AND WHY IS HIS SPEECH
THAT IMPORTANT FOR US? 

THANKS! 

VICTOR 

At 07:52 25-10-2003 GMT, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>From a very cold Mongolia.
>
>Thanks Rony for the speech by Shashi Tharoor. Lets hope that it was our
intervention that
>inspired the change between his article in the Int. Herald Tribune and
this speech.
>
>I am attaching a note from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights on the
>Information Society in which he addresses freedom of expression.
>
>Can we have some comment on the following questions that I want to engage
in the civil
>society system on........
>
>1. Who in the Media Caucus will make it to PrepCom 3 a. Civil society
participation,
>especially from the south will be challenged as there is no support
available. I am trying
>to get there.
>
>2. Within the Civil Society structure we need to make a bid for a media
Caucus seat inside
>the Summit - agree?
>
>3. Do we want to plan a press conference to take place at the Summit> This
can be arranged
>in advance by the organisers. Comment?
>
>4. Shall we submit name/s of people to speak at the Round tables?
Suggestions?
>
>5. There is a request out for input to the 'alternate' declaration being
drafted as a
>stand by civil society position. I have consistently let the Content and
Themes group know
>to use our agreed text. Do we want to work on something else that would
have a home in a
>more visionary declaration?
>
>Best
>
>Tracey Naughton
>
>
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>Tracey Naughton
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Victor van Oeyen
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