[WSIS CS-Plenary] Report from drafting group III, subcom A

[Elizabeth Carll, PhD]

Ralf,

Excellent diplomatic advocacy!  Don't think you went too far if the chair
was going with the flow.  How else to move things forward?  After all you
did  "ensured everyone that I of course knew we had no negotiating rights".
:-)

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
UN NGO Committee on Mental Health;
Communications Coordination Committee for the UN
Tel: 1631-754-2424
Fax: 1631-754-5032
ecarll at optonline.net

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Thanks for the quick report, Vittorio.

One more detail:

> However, civil society proposals got broad support in principle and also
> in practice (especially from the EU ;-) ), even if, in practice, only a
> few of them were adopted. Before the break, Ralf was bold enough to raise
> his hand and take the floor to promote CS positions.

I was explaining one of our suggestions and said that we would also accept
a different approach that was on the table. I then ensured everyone that I
of course knew we had no negotiating rights. The cool thing was that the
chair replied and directly asked me if we would accept this and that way
forward, and also if we could submit language on an issue that is now move
from para 54 to 49. I replied that we would (we're just working on it).

So in a way, it was almost like negotiating. Not sure if I went too far,
but it was a nice precedent. :-)

Ralf
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