[WSIS CS-Plenary] Desai to Civil Society: What Summit Were You at?

[Albert Koellner]

On 17 Dec 2003 at 17:19, Adam Peake wrote:

> ><http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/2003_12_01_archive.html#107115743
> >343833842>
> >
> >Desai to Civil Society: What Summit Were You at?? 
> >At the closing press conference for the World Summit on the Information
> >Society, UN Special Advisor to the Secretary-General Nitin Desai voiced
> >pointed skepticism over civil society's lambasting of the Summit's treatment
> >of protesters and alternative media. Civil Society representatives had
> >released a statement criticizing the authorities for the way they've handled
> >the protestors: "We strongly condemn these violations of the right to
> >assemble and freedom of expression that have cast a shadow of hypocrisy over
> >the summit."
> 
> 
> Did we release a press statement after the final plenary on Friday 
> afternoon?  Bit confused about what was said, where the quote comes 
> from.

http://www.hubproject.org/news/2003/12/404.php
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/12/282794.html
> PRESS RELEASE
> December 12, 2003
> 
> The Civil Society Plenary, meeting in its final session during the first
> phase of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) taking place
> from December 10-12, 2003 in Geneva, unanimously condemns the undemocratic
> actions of the Swiss authorities and the Summit organisers in suppressing
> dissenting and alternative voices. 
[...]

IIRC the statement was read at the HR Caucus press conference, the video 
stream is here:
http://www.itu.int/wsis/geneva/coverage/archive-en-pc|12.asp

Albert
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