[WSIS CS-Plenary] Informations about resumed PrepCom-3 in Tunis (13-15 November 2002)

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Thank you very much for this notification. One realizes it take time to firm up specifics.

A question arises quite naturally I hope because some of us are C.S. Representatives (for example, myself for the Communications Coordination Committee for the U.N.), and of course by now travel and hotel arrangements have been made.  I write to ask if you have arranged for a secondary observer or overflow room. Several days of hotel and time of travel are much affected, with substantial monetary penalties for cancellations (in fact at this point it appears flights on later days are not even feasible), so I hope that you do not mind this query, which could affect others as well.  In my case, which I would imagine not all that special,  my plans are firm based on the meetings starting the 13th; this may be so for others, so I hope that we will be able to be accommodated.

Thanking you for all you do, and most respectfully, LDMF.
Dr. L. D. Misek-Falkoff

(indicated in prior correspondence - arriving for the 13th).

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  From: CONGO - Philippe Dam 
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  Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Informations about resumed PrepCom-3 in Tunis (13-15 November 2002)


  Dear all, 

   

  It has been confirmed that the resumed meetings of PrepCom-3 will take in the Kram Exhibition Centre (Room of the Committee of the Whole, around 400 seats). PrepCom-3 will start meeting on 13 November at 12:00 with an organisational Plenary. 

   

  The WSIS ES decided that no overpass will be instituted for that meeting, but due to the limited size of the meeting room, we were informed that only 30 seats will be reserved for CS observers in meetings we are allowed to attend (Plenary meetings and Sub-Committees).

   

  In this case, we highly encourage you to consider that these 30 seats should in priority be used by CS participants who were actively involved in the previous steps of the WSIS process. You must understand that this will be the last round of negotiations, so that very high priority will be given only to those who can propose specific language for negotiation to the parts of the outcome documents under discussion.

   

  The organisational aspect of this resumed PrepCom-3 in Tunis is not yet finalized. Sub-Committee A, on Internet governance, will hold some sessions, chaired by Ambassador Khan. But as regards Sub-Committee B on other Issues (political chapeau, financial mechanisms, implementation and follow-up), it is not quite sure if it would meet or if discussions would take place directly in negotiation groups. Indeed it is not yet clear if Lindall Shope-Mafole will be in Tunis for resumed PrepCom-3 to chair sub-committee B, whereas Janis Karklins already chaired discussions in negotiation groups in October on these issues and would go faster and further if he continues. However he couldn't chair a sub-committee because of his other position of chair of WSIS II PrepComs. 

   

  There will another Intergovernmental Bureau meeting in Geneva next week, and at this occasion we might have more definitive information about that.

   

  Best regards, 

   

  Philippe Dam
  CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
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