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<DIV>Great suggestion, Marcela. Will do, if ok with others. Will add
FTF as well.</DIV>
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<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV>Rosa</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 9/10/2009 7:05:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Marcela.Ballara@fao.org writes:</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Dear
Rosa ood news and agree on singing the letter. Suggest also to
include<BR>ICAE/GEO name in the letter.<BR><BR>Marcela <BR><BR>2009/9/9
<RosaenCasa@aol.com><BR><BR>> Dear friends,<BR>><BR>> Am
back in New York after days in Portugal for the Global Foundation and<BR>>
Global Council meetings. They were very productive meetings and
am<BR>thrilled<BR>> to inform that the FTF was well involved in the
meetings. I will send<BR>> highlights separately but for now, I would
like to forward information<BR>> regarding the follow-up to the UN
Conference on the Financial and Economic<BR>> Crisis and its Impact on
Development which took place this past June. As a<BR>> follow-up
mechanism to that Conference which we FTF are following, the<BR>> President
of the General Assembly(PGA) D'Escoto Brockman has proposed an Ad<BR>> Hoc
Open Ended Working Group to attend to the work and proposals of the<BR>>
Outcome Document of that Conference (not to be repetitive, please see
the<BR>> details in the message below.) The group is meeting today
for the first<BR>> time. At the moment, there is no formal mechanism
for civil society/NGO<BR>> intervention. The Global Social Economy
Group / Global Crisis Group is<BR>> proposing that a letter be sent to
President D'Escoto and the upcoming<BR>(PGA)<BR>> to include CSOs/NGOs in
the work of the Working Group. I am proposing that<BR>> the Feminist
Task Force be a signatory to the letter and unless I hear<BR>> otherwise, I
will add our name to the list tomorrow (deadline is Thursday<BR>> COB in
NY).<BR>><BR>> If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
skype me, call me or<BR>> write me.<BR>><BR>> Warm regards to you
all,<BR>><BR>> Rosa<BR>><BR>>
------------------------------<BR>> From: Matt.Simonds@ituc-csi.org<BR>>
Reply-to: global-social-economy@googlegroups.com<BR>> To:
global-crises-2008@googlegroups.com,<BR>>
global-social-economy@googlegroups.com<BR>> Sent: 9/9/2009 8:41:42 A.M.
Eastern Daylight Time<BR>> Subj: Important letter for your review and
sign-on<BR>><BR>><BR>> To the Global Social Economy/Global Crisis
Groups:<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> Re: Important Letter for your review
and sign-on<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> This is by way of an update on
important developments at the UN, giving<BR>> particular attention to those
items that relate to the outcome of the June<BR>> Conference on the
Crisis. Recalling paragraph 54 of the June Conference<BR>> Outcome
Document which called on the General Assembly (GA) to establish an<BR>> Ad
Hoc Open Ended Working Group of the GA to follow up issues contained
in<BR>> the Outcome Document, we can report that the process is underway.
Notably,<BR>> on 31 July, the GA agreed to establish the Working Group. The
President of<BR>> the 63rd GA, Father D’Escoto, recently appointed (and
they have agreed to<BR>> serve) H.E. Mr. Lazarous Kapambwe, Permanent
Representative of Zambia and<BR>> H.E. Mr. Morten Wetland, Permanent
Representative of Norway as co-Chairs of<BR>> the Ad Hoc Working Group.
(see PGA letter attached). The first meeting of<BR>> the Working Group will
take place at the UN on Wednesday 9 September 2009<BR>at<BR>> 11am in
Conference Room 4. We will be following this meeting and
reporting<BR>> on any key developments.<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
Also, you may recall that Martin Tsounkeu had suggested on 11 August
that<BR>> we write a letter directly to the Office of the President of the
General<BR>> Assembly requesting some sort of consultative arrangement to
ensure<BR>> continuing involvement of Civil Society Organizations and NGO’s
in the<BR>> Working Group. Taking up on this very important
suggestion, we have<BR>> prepared a letter to be presented to both the
outgoing President of the 63<BR>> rd GA, and the incoming President of the
64th GA, (Mr. Ali Abdussalam<BR>> Treki – Libya), who will take over on
Tuesday 15 September 2009. We<BR>> attach the letter for your review,
comment, and sign on. Given the short<BR>> time available, and the
critical importance of this initiative for staying<BR>> engaged in the
follow-up process, we would request that you refrain from<BR>> suggested
modifications or restrict them to the minimum.<BR>><BR>> We seek
organizational, not individual sign-ons. Please indicate whether<BR>> your
organization agrees to sign-on, and provide the exact organizational<BR>>
details<BR>><BR>> * *<BR>><BR>> *We would like to have the letter
finalized by the evening of Thursday 10<BR>> September, and ready for
sending by Friday 11 September, 2009. *<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
Thanks and best regards,<BR>><BR>> Gemma Adaba and Matt
Simonds<BR>><BR>> International Trade Union Confederation
(ITUC)<BR>><BR>> ITUC United Nations Office<BR>><BR>> 211 East
43rd St. Suite 710<BR>><BR>> New York, NY 10017<BR>><BR>> Tel: 212
370 0180 Fax: 212 370 0188<BR>><BR>> Email:
matt.simonds@ituc-csi.org<BR>><BR>> Website:
http://www.ituc-csi.org<BR>><BR>> *P** **Save Paper - THINK before you
print!*<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
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