[Privsec] WSIS / CS speaker Background Notes and Recommendation

[Robert Guerra]

On 18-Oct-05, at 4:07 AM, karen banks wrote:

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> i addition, we have mr pape diouf.. who remembers him from hammamet?
>
like I said, there were two tunisian parliamentarians on the  
selection committee. I put up a fight - Rik, well didn't...

> yesterday, we mailed all govs, un agencies and intergovernmentals  
> urging them to support shirin ebadi also..  it is going to be vgery  
> difficult for the authorities to reject and if they do, we won't  
> have any trouble getting the press interested..
>
I've notified the Canadian Govt. Ebadi is a very strategic choice -  
Hard for the Tunisians to say no to her. If they do, a boycott will  
follow for sure..

as  for press, we already have their attention. Yesterday I got news  
of a journalist coming to Tunis..one that I would never have thought  
interested... Declan McCullagh !
>

> itu stops nobel peace prize winner from speaking at summit?
>
It's worse. I would say the headline is:

ITU stops freedom of expression, blocks human rights - and at the  
same time wants to take over the internet...Wonder what the US  
reaction would be to that...