[WSIS CS-Plenary] accreditation of Human Rights in China

[carlos a. afonso]

Milton and all,

From: "Milton Mueller" <mueller at syr.edu>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:04:17 -0400
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] accreditation of Human Rights in China

> I support developing a statement on this issue and raising it at the
> press conference [...] I would hope
> that such a statement would somehow deal with the transparency and
> discrimination/state influence issue raised by the WSIS-ES's action,
> and
> take a strong stand in favor of non-exclusiion and diversity of views
> while recognizing the delicacy of problems associated with
> accreditation
> of critics of states in a state-based organization.

The fact is that in the list of requirements there is no restriction
regarding organizations which criticize state policy -- otherwise most
of us would not have been accredited :) -- so I do not think we should 
"recognize this problem" in our statement.

frt rgds

--c.a.