AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [Wsis-pct] IPJ: US & Japan Upset Consensus for Development Agenda at WIPO

[Jacqueline Morris]

The US participated in the WGIG - US Reps were at all WGIG open
sessions, and even though no US govt rep was on the WGIG (neither were
many countries, and India esp was very upset at not having a Govt
member on the WGIG) the US POV was very well represented in the
discussions.
Jacqueline

On 7/27/05, Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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> Good points, Rainer and Wolfgang. The special position of the US in many
> regards (WIPO, UNESCO, IG) is an interesting phenomenon and needs more
> discussion.
> 
> Wolfgang Kleinwächter wrote:
> > And more will come. Looking forward, I see a great conflict between G
> > 20 + China and US on IG during PrepCom3, PrepCom3+ and PrepCom3++
> > without any agreement in Tunis. My two scenarios for Tunis are:
>  > a. failure with a continuation of the discussion and
> > b. failure without a continuation of the discussion.
> 
> The difference is: In UNESCO and WIPO, this all is taking place within the
> UN context and in order to change the policy of a UN organization (which
> indirectly would change policy of member states). ICANN is different, as
> there the US can just stand still and do nothing. They do not even need
> veto power, as the other governments have no real decision-making power.
> Therefore, if we want the US to leave WIPO and/or UNESCO, we are weakening
> multilateral structures. We will then not be able to ask for a more
> internationalized (W)ICANN. The US will never join it. They never even
> joined the WGIG.
> 
> What is still not really clear to me: What is the position of the EU or
> Japan to these issues? And does it count?
> 
> Ralf
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