<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032E6" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032E6" face="Trebuchet MS">From Francine Lambert, ITU:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032E6" face="Trebuchet MS"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">15 October 2005 10:55:11 PM<FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032E6" face="Trebuchet MS"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032E6" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">I am afraid the guidelines are not subject to negotiations from any party. They have been drafted by a small group in the WSIS Secretariat based on consultations with other UN bodies and based on practices including the UN Commission on Human Rights and the Johannesburg Summit. They have now been approved by the Secretary-General of the Summit, hence their release next week. I would like to stress that these guidelines are applicable to ALL participants including governments. They do not require more from participants than the essential principles already given you. The rest of the guidelines are procedural: how to go about sending, getting the stamp of approval for distribution, where the documents can be distributed etc.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>