FW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Civil Society and the Multi-Stakeholderism

[djilali benamrane]

Relevant and important discussions on MSP issues both
on substantive and procedure aspects ....
1... We can note that this exchange is only in English
as if other non English speaking persons are non
concern by the debate... Those (a dozen of resource)
persons who are involved are they official persons
speaking on behalf of the whole ?
2... Persons like Francis Muguet has been very active
on the subject with official statement made in the
Prepcom-2 plenary, is he working on the subject in the
French world and if any how to coordinate ? If English
are not interested to include non English, it will be
difficult to coordinate... let's see what it is
arriving in Tunis ?
3... speaking on multipartenariat practices, i don't
think that ICC was the best case, i do prefere to
relate to ILO International Labor Organisation who is
functionning on a tripartite sheme - States - trade
unions if workers and trade unions of owners - all of
them are represented with equity from each country....
Rich as well as poor countries.... and it works since
near one hundred years, before UNO creation.... and
they do their best to try to correct the folish of the
market rules and transnational companies request
 
La domination de la composante anglophone de la
société civile est totale et méprisante, nul besoin de
se fatiguer à traduire mes élucubrations.... 
Le monde non-englophone étant totalement absent de ce
débat sur les multipartenariat, soit il accepte d'être
marginalisé, soit il travaille de son côté en marge du
monde englophone ...
Nous aurons l'occasion de faire le point à Tunis

--- mclauglm at po.muohio.edu wrote:
> I must correct myself on a couple of items below
> (before someone else 
> does:-): 1) the UN Charter was signed by 50
> countries in 1945--two 
> months later, the inclusion of Poland brought the
> number to 51; 2) 
> not all original member-states were from Western
> nations (I 
> inadvertently omitted an "almost" below) but the
> majority were so.
> 
> In fairness to the ICC, the debate about allowing
> "private 
> organizations" access  to, and consultative status
> with, the UN 
> involved the much broader issue of whether or not
> NGOs (defined as 
> any non-state actor at that time) should be afforded
> these privileges 
> or whether the UN should be a state-centric
> organization that would 
> not be influenced directly by civil society
> organizations.
> 
> Apologies (I'm not a morning person),
> 
> Lisa
> 
> 
> 
> >Richard makes an excellent point about the
> assumption that the WSIS 
> >represents the first real dialogue on MSPs (an
> assumption that's 
> >easy to make, given how the ITU hyped this process
> to CS under the 
> >"common vision" logo). In fact, arguments about
> bringing in 
> >non-state actors began within one year of the
> establishment of the 
> >UN in 1945, after the International Chamber of
> Commerce (ICC, parent 
> >company of our CCBI friends) was granted high-level
> consultative 
> >status, thanks to the efforts of groups from the
> United States to 
> >lobby for the participation of private
> organizations in the 
> >deliberations of the UN and its specialized
> agencies. I believe that 
> >there were approximately 24 nation-states
> comprising the UN in those 
> >days, all Western countries, the majority of which
> opposed the 
> >inclusion of the ICC as a consultant to the UN.
> >
> >Lisa
> >
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