<DIV>Dear All,</DIV>
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<DIV>You are right Meryem to draw our attention on the fact that we should start planning how to make the best use of the slots allocated to the civil society. It'll make sense to associate regional caucuses to the the Content and themes groups in order to make choices which reflect best regional concerns.</DIV>
<DIV>Nice week end.</DIV>
<DIV>Olivier<BR><BR><B><I>Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi all,<BR><BR>This morning I was at a panel making a briefing on the WSIS process <BR>during an event organized by French groups on Intellectual Property <BR>(see http://www.i3c-asso.org/article.php3?id_article=384 for the <BR>programme - its in French).<BR><BR>At this panel, Jean-François Soupizet, from the European Commission and <BR>head of this delegation at WSIS, made a briefing on the governments <BR>point of view, and he confirmed that the next meetings will be:<BR><BR>- PrepCom3A, as we already knwo now<BR>- Most probably a high-level negociation session (either at the heads <BR>of states "sherpas" or at the ministerial level), on December 8 and 9<BR>- During WSIS, each session involving heads of states will devote 1 <BR>hour to observers speaking slots (including civil society)<BR><BR>Of course, these information need official written confirmation.<BR><BR>This would
mean
:<BR>1/ That final texts will be negociated on WSIS eve (!), in closed <BR>sessions<BR>2/ That we have to start seriously discussing, in the content and <BR>themes group, how we could use in the best possible way the speaking <BR>slots that will be attributed to CS. i.e.: which issues would be <BR>highlighted this way.<BR><BR>Meryem<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Plenary mailing list<BR>Plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary</BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français !<br>
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