[WSIS CS-Plenary] bureau legitimacy

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

I am wondering where did the bureau derive the legitimacy for its  
role as a board of Directors for Civil society.  I though the role of  
the bureau was to serve s an interface to external bodies such as the  
ITU secretariat and the other bureaus and that they were not placed  
in the role of oversight for Civivl society.

I therefore do not understand where they find the foundation to make  
decision about what decisions the plenary, the highest decision body  
in CS, can or cannot make.  In my understanding this ability belong  
to working methods to recommend and the plenary itself to decide.

In this morning's plenary meeting, the chairs, using some alleged  
authority given them by the bureau disallowed a decision, or even a  
straw ballot as requested by the Human Rights caucus, even though the  
statement had been discussed at Content and Themes the night before.

Note: while I  am a member of the CS Governance and CS Gender  
caucuses, I am not a member of the Human Rights caucus, and make this  
comment as a concerned participant in Plenary.

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