[WSIS CS-Plenary] Report from Tunisia meeting?

[djilali benamrane]

In French below,
Many thanks Tracey, i tried yesterday to say the same
feeling unfortunately my poor English failed...
I agree totally with your comment and if the CS
representatives are already on a defensive position
againt the Tunisian officials it is not necessary to
try to do anything... doing what our colleagues seem
to do is not productive, we have to be transparent and
courageous... in French there une expression to put
its world under condition.
Merci cher Tracey, c'est ce que je voulais dire en
mauvais englais dans ma réponse d'hier....
Je soutiens le commentaire et si nos collègues qui
parlent d'environnement de censure sont déjà
terrorisés et sur la défensive contre les autorités
tunisiennes on peut parie que nous sommes mal
partis.... C'est une véritable mise en condition qui
n'est pas acceptable, ni de la part des autorités
concernées ni de celles de nos collègues qui rendent
compte de cette façon... A moins que certains
participants à la dernière rencontre informelle de
Tunis sont déjà en train de croupir dans les geoles
tunisiennes... il faut informer et vite !
Djilali
--- Tracey Naughton <t.naughton at iafrica.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert
> 
> I don't believe that the list is censored, though it
> may be widely read.
> What you would be practicing by being economical
> with the truth on the list
> would be self-censorship - a response often adopted
> by reporters working in
> repressive environments where fundamental principles
> of freedom of
> expression / access to information, are compromised.
> If you feel that the
> civil society list constitutes such an environment
> then we face an extremely
> serious situation. I don't believe this is the case
> or that we should act
> like scared rabbits and deny people information -
> even those who's views we
> may want to challenge - lets have open debate.
> 
> Please will someone openly report on the Tunis
> meeting. We expect issues. We
> need to address them. We cannot claim to be
> transparent and participatory
> and rely on isolated 'full briefings' in  far away
> places between two
> people.
> 
> Robert, I know that your intentions are very good,
> but principles must be
> adhered to if we are to even dream of any
> equilibrium on this globe. As
> concerned as you may be about outing with your
> impression of the Tunis
> meeting, we all need to know and we must guard
> against the creation of
> information rich cliques.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Tracey
> 
> 
> 
>  
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