[WSIS CS-Plenary] Composition of the new WSIS PrepCom Bureau

[Ralf Bendrath]

The new bureau chair will be from the North from what I've heard,
because Samassekou was from the South. Somebody should check with the
Euopean and North American Governments. Probably the EU will get the
ticket, but you never know. 
And the government bureau will probably meet before PrepCom1. That is
where the real discussions and decisions will take place.

Ralf

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http://www.itu.int/wsis/preparatory2/bureau.html

Composition of the new WSIS PrepCom Bureau
 
The governments participating in WSIS have agreed on the composition of
the new Bureau of the Preparatory Committee for the Tunis phase. The
provisional Bureau decided to raise the number of countries per region
to six. Further to this decision and to regional consultations on the
matter, the five regions designated their representatives to serve in
the new provisional PrepCom Bureau for the Tunis Phase:

    * Asia Region: Bangladesh, China, Japan, Pakistan, Republic of
Korea, Saudi Arabia
    * Latin America and Caribbean Region: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
    * Africa Region: Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Senegal, Zambia
    * Western Europe and North America Region: Canada, France, Greece,
Norway, Spain, United States
    * Eastern Europe Region: Armenia, Belarus, Hungary, Lithuania,
Russia, Serbia and Montenegro

In its new composition, the provisional WSIS PrepCom Bureau met for the
first time on 19 March 2004. The composition of the PrepCom Bureau for
the Tunis phase, as well as its chairmanship, will be formally approved
during the Preparatory Meeting that will take place at Hammamet
(Tunisia) from 24-26 June 2004.