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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear all, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This is a very short up-date on today’s meetings
of the ‘closed’ intersessional negotiation group.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Civil society people got a briefing with Ambassador
Karklins between 9:15 and 10:00. In addition to his <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>modus operandi</span></i> for today’s meeting, Ambassador Karklins
mentioned that a new proposal from ITU / UNESCO would be officially circulated (but
at the end of the end we have not it yet). We don’t know at this stage if
there would be any working group created to find consensus on articles still
under discussion on implementation and follow-up (to be discussed on Wednesday,
depending on the actual work on the Political Chapeau and Chapter 2).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>From those who attended some parts of the meetings,
we heard that Karklins had a very fast first reading of the bracketed
paragraphs of the Political Chapeau (please see <a
href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=2129|2173">Document
WSIS-II/PC-3/DT/12</a> : ) in order to streamline it, with the hope to get it
stronger and more focused, by deleting all the elements directly copied and
pasted from the Geneva documents. He did not get consensus on this and
therefore get back to Article 1 to start negotiations.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Discussions among States were of course stuck on some
contentious issues (State sovereignty, multi-stakeholder partnerships, debt and
trade related issues), but they went pretty fast on this and many articles were
agreed upon with some changes (paragraphs 1-2; 6 to 8; 10; 13 to 18; 20-21; 23
to 27; 29 to 31; 36; 39; 40 to 42; 44).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Negotiations will continue for compromise texts and
need to come back for para. 3 to 5, 9; 12; 22; 28; 32 to 35 (with main problem
on 32 and 33); 37; 39; 43 and 45.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Paragraphs 11, 12 and 19 are to be merged.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tomorrow morning, discussions will start on financing
mechanisms. The Negotiation group still is supposed to get a finalized agreement
tomorrow afternoon on Political Chapeau and Chapter <st1:metricconverter
ProductID="2, in" w:st="on">2, in</st1:metricconverter> order to deal with
Implementation and Follow-up mechanism on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We also had a meeting with the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place> / EU mission after the afternoon
session during we get an overall report on today’s discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Best regards, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Philippe<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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line-height:120%'><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Philippe
Dam<br>
</span></font></b><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:120%;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><U1:PLACE u2:st="on"><U1:COUNTRY-REGION u2:st="on"><ns0:country-region
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w:endInsDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z"><u3:country-region u1:endInsDate="2005-06-07T16:35:00Z" u1:endInsAuthor="Inter" u1:insDate="2005-06-07T16:35:00Z" u1:insAuthor="Inter"><u3:place u1:endInsDate="2005-06-07T16:35:00Z" u1:endInsAuthor="Inter" u1:insDate="2005-06-07T16:35:00Z" u1:insAuthor="Inter"><ns0:place
w:insAuthor="Inter" w:insDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Inter"
w:endInsDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z"><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>CONGO
-</u3:place></u3:country-region> WSIS CS Secretariat <br>
</span></font></ns0:place></ns0:country-region></span></font></b></U1:COUNTRY-REGION></U1:PLACE><ns0:country-region
w:insAuthor="Inter" w:insDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Inter"
w:endInsDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z"><U1:PLACE u2:st="on"><U1:COUNTRY-REGION u2:st="on"><ns0:place
w:insAuthor="Inter" w:insDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Inter"
w:endInsDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z"></ns0:place></ns0:country-region><b><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;
font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'></U1:COUNTRY-REGION></U1:PLACE>11,
Avenue de <U1:PERSONNAME u2:st="on" ProductID="la Paix"></span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><ns0:PersonName w:insAuthor="Inter"
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w:endInsDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z" ns1:ProductID="la Paix"><font color=navy><span
lang=FR style='color:navy'>la Paix</span></font></ns0:PersonName></U1:PERSONNAME></span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;
font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'><br>
CH-1202 <U1:PLACE u2:st="on"><U1:CITY u2:st="on"></span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><ns0:City w:insAuthor="Inter"
w:insDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Inter"
w:endInsDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z"><ns0:place w:insAuthor="Inter"
w:insDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Inter"
w:endInsDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z"><font color=navy><span lang=FR
style='color:navy'>Geneva</span></font></ns0:place></ns0:City></U1:CITY></U1:PLACE></span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;
font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'><br>
Tel: +41 22 301 1000<br>
Fax: +41 22 301 2000<br>
E-mail: </span></font></b><a href="mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org"
title="mailto:hhumanrights@hyprolink.ch"><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial
title="mailto:hhumanrights@hyprolink.ch"><span
title="mailto:hhumanrights@hyprolink.ch"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:120%;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>wsis@ngocongo.org</span></span></font></b></a><b><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;
font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'><br>
Website: </span></font></b><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'><a href="BLOCKED::http://www.ngocongo.org"
title="http://www.ngocongo.org"><font color=navy title="http://www.ngocongo.org"><span
title="http://www.ngocongo.org"><span lang=FR style='color:navy'>www.ngocongo.org</span></span></font></a></span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;
font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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line-height:120%'><b><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;color:red;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:120%'><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Arial;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'>The Conference of NGOs (<U1:PLACE u2:st="on"><U1:COUNTRY-REGION u2:st="on"></span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><ns0:country-region w:insAuthor="Inter"
w:insDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Inter"
w:endInsDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z"><ns0:place w:insAuthor="Inter"
w:insDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Inter"
w:endInsDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>CONGO</span></font></st1:country-region></st1:place></ns0:place></ns0:country-region></U1:COUNTRY-REGION></U1:PLACE><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>) is an international, membership
association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations
debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, <U1:PLACE u2:st="on"><U1:COUNTRY-REGION u2:st="on"></span></font><ns0:country-region
w:insAuthor="Inter" w:insDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Inter"
w:endInsDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z"><ns0:place w:insAuthor="Inter"
w:insDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Inter"
w:endInsDate="2005-10-24T20:48:00Z"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>CONGO</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region></ns0:place></ns0:country-region></U1:COUNTRY-REGION></U1:PLACE><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>'s major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United Nations
agencies on issues of global concern. For more information see our
website at <a href="BLOCKED::http://www.ngocongo.org/" target="_blank"
title="http://www.ngocongo.org/">www.ngocongo.org</a></span></font></span></font></b><b><font
color=red><span lang=EN-GB style='color:red;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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