[WSIS CS-Plenary] (no subject)

[Jane Johnson]

WSIS Prepcom III
Afternoon Subcommittee B 21.9.05 
Monitoring from 15.00 – 17.00
 
As usual we were starting with interventions from observers. 
Divina Frau Meigs and Karen Mangnall, spoke on behalf of CS on text drafted 
by C+T Subgroup B . Parminder Singh was to speak later on our wish to keep 
the debate open in reference to especially paras 10, 11 and 29 in all docs. 
As events unfolded this became obsolete and Bertrand  De La Chapelle, spoke 
to the new situation. 
 
Paragraph 5
DT 2:
Egyptian submission in brackets
Malawi submission was added
DT 6
Informal Coalition on financing and Gender Caucus was added
Youth Caucus submission was sent to chapter 2
Dominican Republic submission was accepted but with last sentence in square 
brackets
 
Paragraph 6, 7, 8 and 9 
Went to redrafting and resubmission by the chair for later consideration and 
will include inputs from today’s sessions and written input handed in to the 
chair.
There was an agreement to use standard phrase as reference to the MDG’s  
(phrase agreed on previously and reintroduced by the US).
 
Then – from para 10 onwards - the committee decided to use the GFC report as 
reference paper. This was in many ways unfortunate for CS, first of all 
because the objections made to the alterations of paras 10, 11, and 29, on 
CS involvement, implementation and follow-up, were not taken into 
consideration and the language in the GFC alterations is a lot weaker in 
it’s commitment to multi-stakeholder participation and specific 
implementation strategies.

Paragraph 10
Following this the new paragraph 10 was accepted as written.
Ghana suggested to add their para 10 submission to DT 6 to the new para 10. 
This suggestion had not yet been decided when the monitors left.
 
Paragraph 11
At 17, the Holy See was adding to para 11, after Tunis phases of 
WSIS
according to the principle of subsidiarity.
 
 
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