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<div>Interesting thread among ourselves.</div>
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<div>We are entering a new phase where instead of five minutes speaking slots at the beggining of official plenaries (which required a strong coordination and a common statement from civil society) we have obtained the right to speak, or at least some right to do so. As a consequence, we are moving from statements on procedure (basically around the multi-stakehlder principle) where we have large agreement among ourselves, towards substantive issues where differences are larger.
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<div>We therefore are naturally evolving (as happened yesterday) towards a looser coordination of several interventions rather than a single statement. And I believe as Karen has mentionned, that this is more powerful. As a comparison, I believe the constraining EU coordination mechanism is preventing its 27 countries to leverage the diversity of their positions to enhance their outreach and conviction capacity. Let therefore our coordinated diversity lourish in this new stage.
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<div>On the other hand, it is true that some CS interventions yesterday were maybe a little off-topic, and some discussions on strategy should take place on the range of the issues we want to raise. But as someone mentionned on the list
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<div>As for the proportion between governmental speakers, I noted that Nitin tended to give some relative order of priority to governments to be sure that even if they raised their hand later than some CS actors, they were given some sort of precedence. And to me, it is fair at that stage and a perfect example of his chairmanship ability.
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<div>Enough for the moment; but it would be useful later to draw the lessons form the transition we are going through and the two days we experience now. </div>
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<div>Best</div>
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<div>Bertrand</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vittorio Bertola</b> <<a href="mailto:vb@bertola.eu.org">vb@bertola.eu.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Jeanette Hofmann ha scritto:<br>> What I found ironic is that the disagreements we have among ourselves
<br>> are most likely not visible to the outside audience. For them, we all<br>> pursue the same goal.<br><br>That's possibly because they're not listening with attention... :-(<br>Possibly they think they already know what we want to say.
<br>--<br>vb. [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] <a href="http://bertola.eu.org">bertola.eu.org</a>]<-----<br><a href="http://bertola.eu.org/">http://bertola.eu.org/</a> <- Prima o poi...<br>_______________________________________________
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