[WSIS CS-Plenary] A quiet summit...?

[Meryem Marzouki]

Next time, we should think about immolating someone, to entertain the  
media.
Meryem

Le mardi, 16 déc 2003, à 14:48 Europe/Paris, Robert Guerra a écrit :

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> A quiet summit. Civil society has had a quiet summit. It has delivered
> few of the press conferences, eye-catching stunts and noisy
> demonstrations that normally keep the media entertained.
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> Its representatives adopted a counter-declaration, condemned the Swiss
> authories and summit organisers, but failed to provide a definitive
> assessment of the summit's outcome.
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> Instead, the human rights caucus delivered a somewhat lacklustre final
> press conference, expressing relief that "a major setback in the
> international consensus on human rights has been avoided in the final
> declaration."
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> After the conference, Diana Bronson said that WSIS had not been a waste
> of time, despite the brick wall activists had met on a number of  
> issues.
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> "There is a sense of real frustration that there has been a lack of
> advance but it is never a waste of time for governments to sit down and
> talk," she said. "I am pleased that they understand that the  
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> society is not just about laying a cable around the world."
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> Civil society's uncertainty has two causes. Invited into the WSIS
> process, it's now reluctant to stamp its feet when it doesn't get its
> own way. Also, it knows this is a summit of two halves. NGOs may well
> arrive in Tunis in much less compliant mood.
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> Written with Claire Regan.
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