[WSIS CS-Plenary] Shirin Ebadi speech (if accepted)

[Izumi AIZU]

What is the real chance of getting Shirin for our opening speaker?

Highly likely?  Hard to predict?

AND, perhaps, the issue as now develops may not only be applied
to Shirin, but to some or all other CS speakers as well.

Personally, I like to have a reasonable amount of coordination,
but not too strict. The speakers also should have some kind
of autonomy. What I wanted in my earlier note is that
s/he will do their best to "listen" but not take all the elements,
or even "balanced" output per se. She may drop certain issue
at her own judgement, no problem.

In any case I think "conditional support" is not healthy, and
the two caucus/WG supports didn't seem, at least to me, to
be conditional, but just conveyed their standpoints which
is reasonable.

Many thanks Meryem for your continued effort. After all
we could not have this kind of positive support without
your effort in bringing her to the podium.

izumi

At 13:16 05/10/17 +0200, Meryem Marzouki wrote:
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>Dear all,
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>To avoid any misunderstanding, let me clarify this point:
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>It is obvious that Shirin Ebadi would be briefed with the main issues and 
>concerns addressed by civil society at WSIS since 2002. Since the HR 
>caucus proposed her name, and got many supports, it is obviously the first 
>duty of the HR caucus to brief her on that. But it is not reasonable to 
>ask for a meeting between her and thousands of persons...
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>I think that the caucus has gained enough confidence from CS @ WSIS since 
>2002, on its capacity to understand and participate to the promotion of 
>all issues, even if this is not, obviously, at the level of details each 
>dedicated caucus may reach.
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>But on the other hand, it is equally obvious that we cannot commit on 
>every single issue be specifically addressed by Ms. Ebadi, since she, in 
>the end, will write her own address. This is what I meant when speaking on 
>"conditional support", and I wrote this message for the sake of 
>transparency and honesty.
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>Again, I would like to remind everyone that this is the opening speech, 
>and further speaking slots (round tables, plenaries, high level panels) 
>would be used by other CS speakers to elaborate more on specific issues.
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>Best,
>Meryem
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