[WSIS CS-Plenary] Karklins tells governments to work faster

[Rik Panganiban]

Ambassador Karklins, President of the Prepcom, had a short meeting  
with all heads of delegations today at 3pm.  He was pressuring them  
to work faster.

Karklins
We have accomplished much, but progress is slow.  We are putting into  
great danger the summit in Tunis.  Prepcom III is the last prepcom.  
Rumors of another prepcom are false. When delegates are doing  
wordsmithing in drafting committee they don’t understand where we  
are. We have completed 15-25% of entire text.  We have 80% left and  
we only have two and a half days. I appeal to all delegations to  
instruct delegates with that understanding.

I made this appeal on Friday to regional groups. I hope this time my  
appeal will be heard.  We must focus on narrowing down differences  
and deleting brackets.

Tunisia
Tunisia is not willing to host or organize another prepcom.

Bangladesh
Let’s work in smaller groups on specific text to speed up our text.

Russian Federation
We are quite close in our positions on documents we are preparing.   
We support changing working methods to work in smaller teams.

Switzerland
Let’s not renegotiate language agreed in Geneva phase


Rik Panganiban
CONGO


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RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator
Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United  
Nations (CONGO)
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