[WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: Intersessional negotiation group - 26 oct, afternoon session

[CONGO - Philippe Dam]

It seems that this did not go through the CS plenary list yesterday.

Find the report on yesterday afternoon’s meeting (26 october).

 

Ph

 

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Envoyé : mercredi, 26. octobre 2005 23:36
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Objet : Intersessional negotiation group - 26 oct, afternoon session

 

Dear all,

 

Find below a summary of today's afternoon session in the intersessional

negotiation group.

 

Best regards,

Jette Madsen

 

 

Wednesday 26 October, afternoon session

 

After the delegations had had time to have a look at DT26 again, they agreed
to

use it as a basis for negotiations. Elements from DT9 will be brought in

whenever a delegation feels that a part is missing.

 

In the beginning of the meeting, Canada stated that it did not felt
comfortable

discussing multi-stakeholder participation in the implementation without the

presence of other stakeholders.This was supported by UK (EU).

 

The EU also addressed that an ITU proposal was made available in the back of
the

room. The EU stated that it was not fair that one organisation had been
given

the privilege to make a proposal in the intergovernmental meeting and that
they

hoped this privilege would be extended to other stakeholders. The chair
replied

that he would inform the stakeholders about this at his briefing tomorrow

morning.

 

Reading of para 1-10:

 

Para 1-6 was agreed with few, not very substantial changes.

 

Para 7: Para. 9 was moved back in the end of para 7, so as para 7 now stands
as

para 4 stood in DT9. Agreed.

 

New paras 7A and 7B: G77 proposed that new 6bis from DT9 was inserted as a
new

para 7A. US preferred the language in newest 6bis. As there was not
agreement

on this, Karklins proposed to let both paras stay in the text in brackets.

 

Para 8:

Agreed

 

Para 9: moved to 7(see above)

 

Para 10: Iran wanted “mutually-agreed terms” to be conditioned to the
results of

negotiations on para 20 in chap. 2. US would not commit to this. Para was
not

agreed.

 

New paras 10a and 10b: Honduras proposed to insert 6bis and 9B from DT6
after

para 10.Not agreed.

 

“Conceptual reading” of para 23-30:

With about an hour left, the chair proposed to move to paras 23-30 for a

“conceptual reading” to find out whether governments could agree in
principle

on these paragraphs.

 

There was general support to the conceptual framework of the text. In the

following is highlighted some of the positions that were expressed.

 

Chile noted that its proposal on follow-up that was not reflected in the new

text:

[49A: We request ECOSOC, through its Commission on Science and Technology
for

Development, to oversee the systematic coordination, review and policy
debate

of the Geneva and Tunis outcomes of the World Summit on the Information

Society.]] The Chilean proposal was supported by Nicaragua and El Salvador.

 

El Salvador also recalled the solution in the GFC paper, where UNSG is asked
to

set up coordination within a specific date.

 

Ghana (African group) said that they were working on a redrafting of the
Annex,

which they will submit tomorrow.

 

UK (EU) stated that their basic building blocs was

-           Implementation in a system wide and coordinated way, which
should follow

resolution 57/270B.

-           let it be up to each UN agency to decide for themselves how to
implement

(within this reference to stakeholders). No need to blueprint role for any

specific agency (in the briefing with EU after the meeting, it was clarified

that this meant no Annex)

-           SG should coordinate the implementation between agencies

-           Not miss experiences of agencies or multistakeholders

-           Follow-up within ECOSOC

-           Need to look for a way to fit in a multistakeholder approach
with this

 

At the briefing with EU after the meeting, the UK expressed that the EU
liked

the idea of the Chilean proposal and would like to see the proposal included
in

the text in brackets to keep it in the discussion.

 

Russia: in favour of approach building on experiences of UN agencies.

 

Egypt, Iran and Brazil wanted more weight to the follow-up of the WSIS
process

than reports to ECOSOC.

 

 

Jette Madsen

CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat

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