[Mmwg] Suggestion for consultation

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Milton Mueller wrote:
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>>>> Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wz-berlin.de> 2/17/2006 2:08 AM >>>
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>> My impression was that we got away with the strategy this time but
>> won't in the future. I will soon get on the governments' nerves
>> when 15 people speak and not just 3 or 4. They expect some effort
>> in aggregating positions. Rightly so, I think.
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> 
> Perhaps. But can we by the same token demand that goverment aggregate
> their views? There are so many of them, after all...:-)
> 
> Seriously, I agree w. Jeanette that IGC can coordinate and
> orchestrate interventions, and it can do so without committing the
> caucus as a whole, much less "civil society," to a single position.
> E.g., if four of us think that one issue is a big deal but 6 others
> don't, we can identify those divergent views and agree (or not) that
> two people will express one and two another. or any other
> permutation.

I met Nitin Desai on the bus this morning. I asked him about the number 
of our interventions, and whether he shared the view that we spoke too 
much. His reply was surprising and its implications somewhat ironic. 
Nitin said it became a bit exhausting towards the later afternoon. And 
then he said, you all said the same, didn't you? You all had more or 
less the same message.

While I was listening to our statements yesterday I was asking myself 
the same question: most of our statements revolved around a small set of 
principles we want to see implemented. Couldn't we have conveyed the 
same message in 3 or 4 statements?

What I found ironic is that the disagreements we have among ourselves 
are most likely not visible to the outside audience. For them, we all 
pursue the same goal.
jeanette
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