[WSIS CS-Plenary] Desai to Civil Society: What Summit Were You at?

Adam Peake ajp at glocom.ac.jp
Wed Dec 17 08:19:52 GMT 2003


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>Desai to Civil Society: What Summit Were You at?? 
>At the closing press conference for the World Summit on the Information
>Society, UN Special Advisor to the Secretary-General Nitin Desai voiced
>pointed skepticism over civil society's lambasting of the Summit's
>treatment of protesters and alternative media. Civil Society
>representatives had released a statement criticizing the authorities for
>the way they've handled the protestors: "We strongly condemn these
>violations of the right to assemble and freedom of expression that have
>cast a shadow of hypocrisy over the summit."


Did we release a press statement after the final plenary on Friday 
afternoon?  Bit confused about what was said, where the quote comes 
from.

Thanks,

Adam

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