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Distribution I wish to distribute them. So, in advance of that. In this regard, I would also like to inform you that the conference decided that three international meetings that he would hold three international meetings. This year, which will focus specifically in the preparations for the special session.

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All those

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mistakes are also relevant stakeholders that have received invitations to participate in the conference will also be invited to participate in their international meetings of the conference and intergovernmental organizations and non governmental organizations are very much encouraged to speak, and to make presentations on what they feel should be included in the draft political integration, which will be adopted next year by the generals and we added special session. So, it will be important. We would like to flag this Tuesday is probably a measure of preparation required in order to make the best use of those, essentially.

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Thank you. Um, if you have any questions.

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Thank you very much, Lydia. I will start with one question

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actually just to inform that the alliance that took part in the WT. So, I suppose the date, which means that we will be invited to participate in intersessional. Since we were among those who participated

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phila has received a formal invitation to participate in the.

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Also, an invitation to participate to intersessional.

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Oh, thank you very much. So this means that the members of the Alliance can

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perhaps

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make known that if they want to make a contribution so and we can channel. These bozos. These intersession and meetings into video format opportunities that are provided any questions. Any questions for you and have a seat, about the conference of state parties on.

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No questions from the web participants.

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I have a question a yen.

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Thank you. I just had a,

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the logistical question. I haven’t read the identities resolution. And

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you said that the special session on corruption will take place in April in 2021, and will that be in New York, or Vienna and look where, where all the preparations take place and is it the UN ODC that’s in charge of everything.

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Thank you. Yes, the

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special session will take place in just keeping the access

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to

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six to the 28th of April, 21 will take place in

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general assembly.

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But the preparatory process. as per the original mandating resolution which was

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continuty, or the undertaking under the auspices of the formal consultations for example which is here. The international meetings of the conference also part of the proprietary process, and they will be held for the specific purpose of giving a voice to all those stakeholders. That will not participate in the negotiations political declaration. And so I encourage you to to organize yourselves to make presentations and because when feasible during most intersessional games, so that the member states in attendance. Understand what your views are on structure and the substance

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of the regulation. Thank you.

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Just to add

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also that the political declaration will be approved also here again a special session of the conference will take place, most likely in the third week of February, to the purpose of approving it text, which will then be transmitted to the General Assembly.

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This is Karen Smith.

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Thank you. Any other questions.

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Can you can you hear me much.

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Hello,

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yes yes this is Karen Smith,

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this is Karen. Hi.

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Hi. I’m

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sorry it was not clear. The sound is either

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not good enough for me, or it’s not clear what the processes for people to participate in the, the intercessory process. It’s a process.

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Unfortunately, you were

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in. Perhaps you can type your question,

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engage in the,

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in the intercession on you mean, yeah, shut up.

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If you mean the international meetings of the conference as mentioned, formal invitations will be issued to all NGOs, non governmental organizations that participate in the conference and all those a receipt of such invitations will be more than welcome to participate in the meetings in person in Vienna,

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should you wish to not just here.

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Okay. So, I will just repeat that the ether

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Alliance, we received this invitation.

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Okay. Then

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I asked members would be able to engage and to and to share the information and to share his information. Yes.

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Yeah, no, just to just the

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other questions that I could see you on the screen.

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Knowing your organization’s will be able to protect or other organizations that have not received an invitation to the conference will be able to participate in the intersessional meetings of the conference.

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Thank you.

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Yes, and I repeat for the third time.

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That all members of the Alliance are welcome and encouraged to participate, through the Alliance. So, this is a fantastic opportunity for your lines to be heard.

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I would also reiterate our contributions that can be submitted at any time and there are not linked to specifically to the participation to the attendance in the conference and those contributions will be posted on the longest website. Thank you.

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Excellent.

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Okay. Thank you.

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I think we can move on. I don’t see Toby’s anyone else from the web. No, I don’t see any, any other movement there. Hello.

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Hello.

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Okay, is Linda.

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Okay, hi. Yes, yes. I wrote my question on the chat

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on the chat.

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We send our release

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to the alliance that we want to include that we want to include it.

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We can, sorry.

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Can I receive inputs consolidated inputs from the Alliance so we can receive and potentially do. So it’s really very much up to you to decide on how you wish to channel, those contributions. Thank you.

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Okay, thanks. I think that we will facilitate this as much as possible and the way we planning to do in order to prevent that.

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Too much traffic and to coordinate similar inputs and put in contact organizations who want to contribute to so that they know about others who are interested in. At the same topics so. So you’re welcome to use the line and says the coordinating body is the way it’s meant to be. Any other question because really we should move on the interest of

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time.

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Let’s see.

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See it Thank you.

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Okay,

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then I would like to give the

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floor to Mira libretti, because we have updates now about the decline call, Congress and we also have some colleagues who are specifically in charge of

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the Secretariat about improvisation and that they can give us interesting mission.

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Thank you Madam Chair. Thank you for inviting me. I was not personally present at the meeting which was held before Christmas, also

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introducing the Congress and the workbench the role of NGO into Congress.

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So, we know that there was this very good PowerPoint presentation, I can repeat you main point, but I’m lucky to have here also our critique from the Secretariat. So I think. Later on the easier question will be handled together or or I will,

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we will

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let them probably say something and something.

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The dates I’m sure they are known to you but let’s repeat it’s coming soon from 20 to 27 acres 2020 in Kyoto. And I know that there was also another very last week in organizational meeting I saw some of the colleagues so everything is getting on track. The main team, as we know, is advancing crime prevention criminal justice, and the rule of flow towards the achievement of the 2030 agenda.

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The

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program is also available on the documentation on the website, it, it started with a pre Congress meeting underneath the 19th of April. And then, the main session, there will be the plenary for the discussion of the seven item on the agenda. So it goes from the Monday, 28th to the Monday 27 April, including the Saturday and Sunday

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in Berlin, there will be three workshop. Sorry for workshop. And, and many many as Hillary meeting. Actually, it is it reach a record this year.

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248 and Hillary meetings have been accepted, compared to 195 at the certian Congress if you want to have an idea. The deadline was 31st of December, so you are, you cannot. You know, request any additional anything. Gary he’ll is responsible of the logistics of things so I’m sure he is trying to find the space and correct venue to all those 240

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meetings that were requested.

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It’s going to be a very interesting session starting, even with the Youth Forum, which is on between 13 and 15 of April.

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And,

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and many people are also doing parallel activities I have my colleague here Anders who can say something also about a workshop that we are organizing actually with the global initiative, so maybe one of the two to you to decide. But maybe before I speak, I would like to give an anchor of the chair, but it is, it can add something

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wants to go first.

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And those of you.

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Hello, my name is Donna Konishi McEvoy I work for the third to the governing bodies of the division for treaty affairs, I’m a working level focal point of the crime Congress. And actually, we have made my boss Joe detain has made a presentation at the meeting last time so I don’t think I will need to repeat that. But,

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and also as Amidala

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has, I wouldn’t weekly what mirror has spoken, but maybe we can add that we have on our website. We have a official website of the Congress, if you type prime congress.org, you can go to that website and also you can jump there from the website of the window DC, and we are uploading you what we think is useful to the participants. For example, the unedited advanced version of information for participants. There you can find all sorts of information on the registration and travel and information about to ban including the transportation, and those issues. So, it will be useful for you to take a look at that information at the advanced version of the information for participants. And also we have been working on the working paper, or the each agenda items and background paper for each workshop topics, and it is. It has been finalized and it’s under editing and translation at the moment. So, as soon as those documents are finalized. We will be also posting that on to our website so that participants could take a look before they come to the discussion at the agenda items and workshop topics. If there’s any questions on the substantive issues or organization, or matters. We will be happy to answer

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those questions. Thank you very much.

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You. Let’s just see if we receive from the Secretariat at Siena. Okay.

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They don’t want to say anything.

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Okay.

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To the information from the Secretariat.

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Thank you very much for having me today. I’m Satoshi from the Secretariat to the governing bodies of university. Well I’m mainly in charge of logistical issues on the crash course, and I think you have already received our vacation letters to the Congress, and we are going to start your restoration. And I’m not sure whether you have already sent us your registration form. We are going to start to register or once, once we received the situation. And we put your information into the list racist here, and you will receive an automatic email, which described about for the procedure, including according to your photograph for your security badges and song, and let ultimate email include very important information such as the decline of problem photograph. And also, if you need a visa to go to Japan. The trying of these application. So please be careful about automatic email to receive after you’re sending after sending your information on the UN ODC. Thank you.

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Thank you very much, I think, um, this will give us some additional information from the civil society.

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Okay, for those who are on the other side on under sponson from civil society. And we have been lucky enough to have some of you already know about its two Kickstarter projects that involve civil society engagement with the untuck and its really mechanism. We started this project, late last year with the needs assessment workshop here in Ghana in October. We’re doing this project together the global initiative against organized spine is here today. We are hoping to do the first out of two scheduled a trainings with civil society, private sector and academia, in the margins of the United crime Congress in Toronto. We have asked the organizers, if we can have one of the news to be used for two days in Kyoto ahead of the actual Congress. So we are waiting for confirmation that we’re hoping, at the moment, to do 1718 of April, which should be a Friday and Saturday. Proceeding the conference, which starts on the 20th. So this has to be confirmed. And basically, here we are inviting up to 40 private sector, academia and civil society that can benefit from further training on the talk and it’s review mechanism and how we can better prepare these malls, to take a constructive part in collaborating with their respective governments on the review mechanisms each other.

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After the next couple of

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matches. So

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that’s just a two, you know one quick remark for me and I perhaps end up. Thanks.

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I don’t really have anything to add other than to say that is one of the main responsibilities, one of the vice chairs, the Alliance’s coordinate with the other members of the boards and publicize.

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I had one question actually for the secretariats team as well, if I may, which is with regard to registration kind of on behalf of my organization but also other organizations that might not have an ECOSOC

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consultation status, so I know there is a deadline at the 10th of February, where we have to submit a letter of application, and then is the process after that once you know how was that approved and. And then when we went to the winner. We then able to register our delegates.

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Thank you for your questions. Very good question. Well, your application, with the leech distributism safety team fast, and sudden, we suddenly such integration of a few optimization, Amber city society.

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When I take it

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to expect it.

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And then

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we are going to send in additional data to you.

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Based on that decision made by society. So,

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yeah, and on the show about the special season.

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A great. I think that we are missing exactly to the core of what everybody wants to know, and the information is already on all the websites, it has been placed for a long time and so the Congress is luckily one of the events. When we’re also organization speaks out across the state to take us can take part. The requirements that are spelled out in a necklace of resolution, 1996 31, there is a paragraph to paragraph, 44, it sets to be the rules executive documentation that is, it’s not impossible. I’ve done it myself, for my own organization feasible. It produces some documentation that proves that you’re doing relevant activity, and some activity reports and some statements that that NGOs that are closer to the work of unit C are most likely to be able to produce. So, the deadline is 10th of February, understand. So, can we just get a confirmation we have here the civil society. So the procedure is that this information should read the reach the civil society by 10th of February, is that correct can get the information from you della perhaps around this will be. And this.

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Your last

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line is.

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Okay, so basically this is

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what they was asking so deadline is August 10 of February, is for NGOs to send you this information, and then you will elaborate and confirm that everything is okay. Right. Okay,

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so this is important because there is not much I.

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Any other questions, because we had a question from the web so there are no specific forms for registration for non ECOSOC. But, if there is the production of this documentation. Right. From right

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from international

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ciliated. Some folks

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got a real problem.

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I think the question is about individuals registration. Then you,

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everybody. You see out there has

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a minimum ratio, we can apply all of your members as well.

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Delegate

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delegate to UTI

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medical team mental

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practice tonight.

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How’s it going today. Okay.

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You know,

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I mean there is this opening up to the individual expert but it is usually restricted

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to university and this university can

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be registered as a relevant NGO, it is.

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It is what it is preferable. There are always exception because it should be,

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I don’t know who doesn’t

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want government delegation and. And this the Secretariat will decide on the individual exposure the civil society team is not covering this has to be

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clear.

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And then it wants to add something.

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So, um, for the individual expert, it will be

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there will be some kind of a kind of an inspection process. Something civil society does what no echo fuck datas NGOs the in those individual expert who need to write to the Secretary and express their interest to participate in the Congress by can be process was on the registration page of the Congress website so you can go to the registration page of the Congress website and then the instruction is there. That’s so basically those individual expertise directly Secretariat of the, of the interest to participate in the Congress and then the Secretary will follow up with the necessary inquiry on that case.

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And I just

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have two more questions with me.

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The first one.

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What will be the opportunity to

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speak, or make our own statement plenary.

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Will they be,

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how, how.

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Yes, I can answer this one because of experience of previous year but also because for the high level segment. And because there are very few slots there will be only one slot for NGOs and we have agreed to have it coordinated by

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the Alliance so this will be the last one of that

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panel discussion on the other items and NGO in the practice of the crime condition. They have to request. 24 hours before to the conference surface, their name on the speaker list, give

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a brief summary of the intervention so

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that, and also prefer translation.

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And, and each time allows, they will be given the core a

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condition which which is member state for a symptom of an organization, and an NGOs, keep last on the workshop, there is not this formality Hi, recall correctly, it’s much more interactive so it depends always on the chair also the workshop,

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so. Yeah.

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And yes,

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my last Christians Christian.

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I know that you is God given

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to me when the new inner

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voice.

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If I may experience.

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Normally the executive director has a kick out the door. but I don’t

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know I think it’s something that can be coordinated with the Secretariat

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executive directors very busy. So, have to see what kind of

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opportunities that somebody wants

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things. Yeah. Nothing so

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I’m

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thinking, in my experience, it’s

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obviously the executive director cannot see every single NGO so I would suggest that may be a request is made, at some point, from the alliance to have an immediate briefing with NGOs or an introduction. This could be properly organized

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and efficient letter to

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executive director requesting a

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meeting with the NGOs.

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Yes, actually we have a meeting of the Alliance planned, the beer and obviously we really invite you know DC is the highest possible level, so we’ll see how it works. Depending on availability and plans, I think that previous Congress has said the executive director of this time. We available at one meeting city society. And, but of course, we have to see how it goes. The, the, this time. There were questions about the follow up the so this. The Congress is the same as the other processes where organizations without echo status, make the application. Then, if everything is okay. They are accepted and then only later at a later date. They have to submit to the names of the delegates. So, this is a two step process. So I hope that this answer one of the questions that was posed in writing and previous. So, it is first, the accreditation on the NGO and sec on the list of the names of the, of the participants of the delegates, and. Okay. So, one has to read carefully the information that is on the website and you can see website it’s also on the crime alliance.org website to read, sometime, and it explains exactly steps step by step but this, this process. And another thing that we heard is about the high number of senior in meetings so those who haven’t seen a meetings approved recently received an email from Gary Hale, who provided some practical information on logistics and suggested everybody to complete the information on SLA meetings completing the list of speakers are completing all the information that is necessary to organize in terms of required the key element required. I don’t know if anyone can have interpretation. But anyway, things like that. And to recommend the organizers of ancillary meetings respond promptly to requests from the people coordinating so that we can proceed smoothly with organizing all of this. I think that this is in everybody’s interest so that the calendar can be established as soon as possible. And that will also facilitating today the trial arrangements and and other things. And is there any other question specifically about the Congress also taking advantage of the colleagues for the Secretariat here.

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Yeah.

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I tried to me I have

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to question one more comment and

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then is that maybe will be decided, discuss later. But the

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comment. I think it’s important to clarify that non relevant, NGOs, I mean the work of civic

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society is is not screening them is just to put

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a list

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that will go to the Bureau, and the Bureau, so its member states will may decide that some NGOs can are not real NGOs or for whatever reason they can decide that they will not receive the invitation.

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So I want to make this clear.

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The other thing. I mean traditionally we did,

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yes organize a briefing with the Alliance for NGOs so this, this would be good to think about it when because I will have to communicate,

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also to our conference service the,

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the modality. And I think there are two things one would be the precinct to NGOs, possibly like on the first day of the Congress, and then there will be certainly our coordination meeting for the NGO I know that there is a lounge, that you know, it’s not enough. We may need to request tools for a sec coordination meeting, especially if you have to coordinate on the joint statement no I mean it’s hoped that the joint statement would be ready before it ever.

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And, again, in case there are like formal coordination meeting with either senior representative, the executive director of you know DC or any answer you know member states.

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So has to be

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taken into account and

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organize at some point. Thank you.

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Thank you very much. So this is very good to know.

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Any other question.

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No.

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Hey, then

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I’m Karen Yes. And what is the process you’re using to prepare the city society statement. Okay that is next point on the on the agenda that. And if we are finished with the logistics and the registration, and those are questions we move on, this is point six that starts with discussion of the structure of the statement at the high level is segmented during the Congress. So, as mirela said the high level segment that is only one of the segments of the Congress is the one that is normally the ministerial level. For this there is a very short list of speakers, and the Alliance has been in contact with the Secretariat and secured the slot to make NCD society statement, so that will be delivered by the Alliance on behalf of all menus. So, the structure of the statement last time at the Congress in Dhaka, and largely overlapped to the Dhaka declaration. As you may know, at the moment, there are negotiations in process for the preparation of the chiappa declaration that is the, the political declaration so that member states are negotiating and coordinating, and the structure of this document, which I hadn’t seen unfortunately, maybe some other people make inputs to provide this goat goes by heavies. So it has headings that should largely overlap the team’s the topics of the agenda of the conference. So, the Secretariat has,

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and perhaps a supplement in this, because,

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basically it means putting some some flesh, so the city society reflections on each of these of these topics, so that we can have civil society statement the death, reverse the political declaration with our own considerations.

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untaken consultations interest is.

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Um, so, I think we have already indicated last time that I, for each attendee identity topics I think it would be an extremely

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hard work to prepare for each NGOs to prepare our statement, or each, each agenda and each

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workshop topics or.

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So we were

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encouraging to perhaps provide some kind of joint statement or each agenda items, and perhaps divide the labor between the NGOs on coming up with those joint statements on each agenda items and, and perhaps workshop topics,

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and

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for your question is about

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when to fight those without any question was just, if you had any any piece about the structure of the

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Kyoto declaration. But, but it doesn’t matter we see here that

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some colleagues are.

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Okay.

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As for the

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political declaration. The third round of informal consultation is going to be held from 21st to 23rd of January. And I’m for that.

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The zero draft of

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that political operation as being just shared by us, for, for circulation among member states.

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Exact Yes,

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perfect sale that is exactly, exactly do for

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it so. So there is the third the round of consultations among member states and we’re talking about member states and not about the process that is led by UN seat but by Member States a repeat for the third time. So, the need that we have is not to go off with a statement that doesn’t that reflect that work member states and discussing that something that member states can receive, and that is similar to what they are discussing in the Kyoto declaration. Okay. Obviously, this will go item by item or according to the structure that they are discussing but it is very similar to this lecture of the Congress agenda. The in this meeting that they said that the negotiation meeting is next week. So, most probably. By the time of the procession a meeting of the primer commission that is

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possibly the, there will be

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more knowledge about the draft of the, of the Kyoto declaration. At this point, I think that we can start making sure that we have a template something that we can share with, with all members of the audience, so that they can provide input on the, on the areas where they want to contribute and less time. This was a consultative process that okay and just send it some NGOs were not consulted, but again, it could be a matter of making sure that all the mailing lists are used proficiently. For us, we have an updated list of our members, if we want to reach out to two other groups, they will have to make it known that they are interested in joining in the Alliance. And so, we, we think that by next week there will be the possibility to share the template. Right.

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So as regards the substantive content. It is about putting

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text around the various items. So, to supplement the desirey society views to the topics that are already being printed in Kyoto declaration. Hey, in terms of practicalities and point seven of our agenda for today, we have the possibility of establishing and working group, among members of the Alliance for coordinating the drafting of this state. So, is there any volunteer to take part in this working group.

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I would be happy to work

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at another

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national. That’s Olivia. Yes, yes. Okay. Olivia.

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Thank you very much.

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Yeah. And I’m global initiative. Wisdom.

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The voice.

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Okay, incomes to.

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Okay, okay, we have already two obviously here. The executive board the contribute

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actively

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okay yeah they’re nearly may want to join them that’s good news. But we have to get confirmation. Yeah, feel free to write to mention that he could be interested. Okay, so

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they’ll be can take note of this.

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Thank you paradigm if you can confirm with yeldon yearly. Thanks a lot.

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Okay. Someone children’s right children in justice.

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We welcome new members in the Alliance.

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It’s of course I mean, it’s always good to consult the people who know about things, but it will also be very good to have them as members of

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me as comments on this. Okay, so, in practice, I think that we will confirm because defensive this group of around the emails. Over the next few days.

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And,

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yes. And then, I think we can start the drafting basically starting on the 24th to that is the intercession and meeting of the Grand commission where I think that would be an update about the guilt the declaration and about this, the state. The state to server of negotiations. So to BS. Exactly, isn’t about sex. And he made, and these he made with probably with its some suggestions and some materials from previous congresses also to take inspiration from pigness permission. Is anyone who wants to add something.

Unknown Speaker 50:04
Okay. So, we are getting 2.8 of the agenda.

Unknown Speaker 50:11
That is the date of next meeting. So as I said at the beginning, we have quite a lot of

Unknown Speaker 50:21
milestones in 2020. So, we are trying to be proactive in organizing meetings and in establishing deadlines so that we can get things, timely. So, the next meeting of the Alliance. And as a meeting like this one will be held during the CMD Commission on narcotic drugs. That is in the week from the second to the sixth of March, and specifically, we are looking at the fourth of March, at the Wednesday. Around this time again. So we’re looking at 3:30pm Vienna time. And by that nature, we would like to get the expressions of interest. And for three members for the nominations Committee for the next. General Assembly. What is the nominations committee is a committee of three members who looks at candidates for election for vacant board position. We still have a few positions that are vacant in the board

Unknown Speaker 51:55
for board members, and

Unknown Speaker 51:59
we will need to receive

Unknown Speaker 52:03
nominations. Okay. The deadline is a bit further down I think it will be at the end of March for candidates, but we need to get the nominations committee place, and two members for the electoral committee in that the Elections Committee so the people who will actually run the election, at the General Assembly, that will take place during the time permission. That is in the week of the 18th of May. Here in Vienna. And again, we are looking at the 20th of May, the afternoon of the 20th of May, for the General Assembly.

Unknown Speaker 52:52
Here in the end.

Unknown Speaker 52:55
So, most probably, we will also have a meeting in between the 50.

Unknown Speaker 53:02
Before the Congress, they repeat the debates of the Congress has 2227, April. So we’re thinking of having another meeting of the Alliance on possibly the second of April. So, this is an era of calendar, we will repeat all these dates in the minutes that we’re going to send around so that you don’t get lost. But it’s interesting to start looking at this as a as a process. So that one can plan in advance also topics to be put on the agenda for the presenting that that members want to discuss, so that we can prepare in advance and we invite speakers if necessary. So, that we come to Kappa, you know, something like unexpected meetings but but that process where everybody can put you any comments on this.

Unknown Speaker 54:19
Good. Any other business. Has anyone, any as a business

Unknown Speaker 54:25
to suggest to government.

Unknown Speaker 54:33
Your clients will. Okay. Yes, the New York Alliance is very active. And so they became a calendar of the meetings, they did.

Unknown Speaker 54:47
Okay.

Unknown Speaker 54:49
On Valentine’s Day. Oh that’s very nice.

Unknown Speaker 54:54
Okay.

Unknown Speaker 54:57
So if anyone has anything else to say no, no one, no nothing good.

Unknown Speaker 55:03
So then I think that we managed to close the meeting on time to respect this lot that people even. Thank you, everybody. Thank you for your participation. And we hope that the next time when we will be able to make all this machinery work.

Unknown Speaker 55:24
Thank you and good afternoon.

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