Monday, May 21
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Monday, May 21
Not much happened today. The session started late due to a mix-up at the
accreditation. It took two to three hours to get your badge!
First point to be discussed was what procedure should be followed for the 6
NGOs(so far) who have been denied accreditation to
the WCAR (Human Rights in China, the International Campaign for Tibet and the Tibetan
Centre for Human Rights and Democracy). The discussion
started in the morning session and continued after lunch. I'm not sure what
was decided, but I'll find out tomorrow. We spent a lot of time today to
find people to write articles for the web site and the summaries on
un-discussion, so the real reporting will start tomorrow. For now it looks
like it is going to be a very difficult and long meeting as so far nobody
agrees on anything and the conference declaration and plan of action now
are 205 pages. There's even rumors the PremCom will continue for a week
longer than originally planned. Extra evening sessions have been put in on
tuesday and wednesday.
By the end of this week/beginning next week the NGOs will have the
opportunity to address the PrepCom verbally and to present the declaration
and plan of action from the NGO Forum.
Sangoco, the Co-ordination Committee and the International Steering
Committee are working hard on getting it done, a final version will be put
out as soon as possible.
Suzette Bronkhorst
I CARE News team