[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [CS Bureau] Meeting yesterday with WSIS ES

[Adam Peake]

Philippe, thank you.

One question (below)

At 9:49 PM +0200 10/25/05, CONGO - Philippe Dam wrote:
>Please find below a short summary of the meeting 
>we had on Monday with the WSIS ES.
>
>Meeting with the WSIS ES
>24 October 2005
>
>Overpasses for Resumed PrepCom-3 ­ The venue of 
>the resumed prepcom-3 is now decided: it will be 
>in a hotel in Tunis North, close to the KRAM 
>Centre (I will send you the exact name of the 
>Hotel tomorrow, because there was some sort of 
>confusion on it today). One more time, even 
>though the decision is not taken yet and if 
>Charles Geiger was quite reticent to the 
>introduction of overpasses, it seemed to us 
>highly probably that overpasses would be 
>established for the Plenary and Sub-Committees A 
>& B of the resumed PrepCom-3 in Tunis.
>



Did the WSIS ES say how large the meeting space 
is, how many people it will take?

Is it the 300 seat room first mentioned, or 
larger space they hoped to be able to find?

Could you confirm.

Many thanks,

Adam




>Host Country Agreement
>Charles Geiger ensured that the Host Country 
>Agreement would probably be published on the ITU 
>website on the next few days (at least article 1 
>to 6, applicable to all participants, and the 
>table of contents). In addition, each government 
>could see the entire upon request.
>
>As this stage, note that you can find a 
><http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/info.html>www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/info.html 
>a FAQs regarding privileges and immunities for 
>participants: the document is only in French 
>today but will be translated in the up-coming 
>hours.
>
>Documents policy
>We commented the text and get some additional 
>clarification that this is in line with regular 
>practice in UN summit, and that the ITU would 
>follow the same practice.
>
>We were advised to send pouched documents to the 
>address indicated on the documents policy 
>guidelines:
>"Livraison Documentation"
>PalExpo Kram
>SMSI 2005
>Porte No. 3
>Kram, Tunisie
>However the main difficulty remains how to send 
>document pouches in Tunis and be sure that it 
>would arrive at the Kram Centre in due time and 
>without any custom problem. Tunisian customs and 
>post services were requested not to block or 
>delay the importation of documentation for the 
>Summit, but we requested more information of the 
>best procedure to send documents in Tunis. Some 
>possibilities are still under considerations, 
>and the WSIS ES proposed to come back by the end 
>of this week with additional information, 
>through its team currently visiting Tunisia for 
>logistical issues.
>
>We will come back to you as soon as we have 
>additional and more precise information in this 
>regard.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Philippe
>
>
>
>
>
>Philippe Dam
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