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10.
Some progress was made on the remaining parts of the draft output, namely the Political
Chapeau and Chapters 1 and 4, which were forwarded to PrepCom-3 along with compilation
documents containing written comments and proposals of delegates. The deadline for further
comments was set for 30 May 2005.
11.
Switzerland submitted a “Proposal of the Swiss delegation for a Paper on the
Implementation of the Geneva Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action”. The President of the
Preparatory Committee decided to refer this document to the Bureau of the Preparatory Committee,
which was mandated to take an appropriate decision.
12.
PrepCom-2 approved the draft proposed format of the Tunis phase of the WSIS. The report
of PrepCom-2 can be found at: https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/preparatory2/pc2/index.html
V.
PREPARATION OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE PREPARATORY
COMMITTEE
1.
Organization of PrepCom-3
13.
PrepCom-2 decided to hold the third meeting of the Preparatory Committee from 19-30
September 2005 in the Palais des Nations, Geneva. Invitation letters to PrepCom-3 were sent on 8
April 2005 by the ITU Secretary-General to Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Members States, with
copies to the Ministers of Communications/ICT and the diplomatic missions in Geneva, and to New
York for States without missions in Geneva. Invitations were also sent to ITU Sector Members and
to interested United Nations entities and invited international organizations. Accredited NGOs, civil
society and business sector entities were invited through invitation letters placed on the official
WSIS web site.
2.
Regional and thematic meetings
14.
Since PrepCom-2, two regional conferences took place, one in the Latin American and the
Caribbean region (Brazil) and the other in the Asia-Pacific region (Iran). Reports on these regional
conferences will be presented at Prepcom-3. More than 18 thematic meetings took place during this
period. A full list of these meetings can be found at:
3.
Intergovernmental Bureau of the Preparatory Committee
15.
PrepCom-2 mandated the Intergovernmental Bureau of the Preparatory Committee to take
an appropriate decision on the proposal introduced by Switzerland to present to the Summit a
“Stocktaking implementation” report and a “stakeholder commitments” paper. The Bureau accepted
the Swiss proposal.
4.
Group of the Friends of the Chair (GFC)
16.
The May 13 meeting of the Bureau agreed to reconstitute the GFC, with the same
composition and the same modalities as before PrepCom-2. (The list of the members of the GFC
can be found at https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/gfc/members.html.) According to the decision of PrepCom-
2, the GFC was mandated to discuss further Chapters 1 and 4 of the Tunis Final documents and
draft new proposals to be submitted to PrepCom-3. The GFC held two regular meetings on the 27th
of June and 11th of July and additional meetings in early September. The GFC took into
consideration more than 30 proposals from stakeholders received after PrepCom-2. These are
summarized in Document DT/6(Rev.2) As a result of the discussions, a new draft for paragraphs 10,
11 and 29 from the GFC will be presented at PrepCom-3, together with consideration of other new
proposals. The draft can be found in Document WSIS-II/PC-3/DOC/6.