<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal">Ambassador Karklins, President of the Prepcom, had a short meeting with all heads of delegations today at 3pm. He was pressuring them to work faster.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><I>Karklins</I></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">We have accomplished much, but progress is slow. We are putting into great danger the summit in Tunis. Prepcom III is the last prepcom. Rumors of another prepcom are false. When delegates are doing wordsmithing in drafting committee they don’t understand where we are. We have completed 15-25% of entire text. We have 80% left and we only have two and a half days. I appeal to all delegations to instruct delegates with that understanding. </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">I made this appeal on Friday to regional groups. I hope this time my appeal will be heard. We must focus on narrowing down differences and deleting brackets.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><I>Tunisia</I></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Tunisia is not willing to host or organize another prepcom.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><I>Bangladesh</I></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Let’s work in smaller groups on specific text to speed up our text.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><I>Russian Federation</I></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">We are quite close in our positions on documents we are preparing. We support changing working methods to work in smaller teams.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><I>Switzerland</I></DIV>Let’s not renegotiate language agreed in Geneva phase<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Rik Panganiban</DIV><DIV>CONGO</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">===============================================</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">RIK PANGANIBAN <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Communications Coordinator</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">web: <A href="http://www.ngocongo.org">http://www.ngocongo.org</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">email: <A href="mailto:rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org">rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">* Information on the WSIS at <A href="http://www.ngocongo.org/wsis">http://www.ngocongo.org/wsis</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">* Information on Millennium+5 at <A href="http://www.ngocongo.org/mdg">http://www.ngocongo.org/mdg</A></FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>