[WSIS CS-Plenary] Intersessional negotiation group of PrepCom-3 - 24 October 2005

[CONGO - Philippe Dam]

Dear all, 

 

This is a very short up-date on today's meetings of the 'closed'
intersessional negotiation group.

 

Civil society people got a briefing with Ambassador Karklins between 9:15
and 10:00. In addition to his modus operandi for today's meeting, Ambassador
Karklins mentioned that a new proposal from ITU / UNESCO would be officially
circulated (but at the end of the end we have not it yet). We don't know at
this stage if there would be any working group created to find consensus on
articles still under discussion on implementation and follow-up (to be
discussed on Wednesday, depending on the actual work on the Political
Chapeau and Chapter 2).

 

>From those who attended some parts of the meetings, we heard that Karklins
had a very fast first reading of the bracketed paragraphs of the Political
Chapeau (please see Document
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=2129|2173>
WSIS-II/PC-3/DT/12 : ) in order to streamline it, with the hope to get it
stronger and more focused, by deleting all the elements directly copied and
pasted from the Geneva documents. He did not get consensus on this and
therefore get back to Article 1 to start negotiations.

 

Discussions among States were of course stuck on some contentious issues
(State sovereignty, multi-stakeholder partnerships, debt and trade related
issues), but they went pretty fast on this and many articles were agreed
upon with some changes (paragraphs 1-2; 6 to 8; 10; 13 to 18; 20-21; 23 to
27; 29 to 31; 36; 39; 40 to 42; 44).

Negotiations will continue for compromise texts and need to come back for
para. 3 to 5, 9; 12; 22; 28; 32 to 35 (with main problem on 32 and 33); 37;
39; 43 and 45.

Paragraphs 11, 12 and 19 are to be merged.

 

Tomorrow morning, discussions will start on financing mechanisms. The
Negotiation group still is supposed to get a finalized agreement tomorrow
afternoon on Political Chapeau and Chapter 2, in order to deal with
Implementation and Follow-up mechanism on Wednesday.

 

We also had a meeting with the UK / EU mission after the afternoon session
during we get an overall report on today's discussion.

 

Best regards, 

 

Philippe

 

 

Philippe Dam
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