PREP.COM. Activities Report
Reporting: Viviana Maldonado, March 17, 2000 WomenAction 2000 - Live at CSW
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44th Session Of The United Nations Commission On The Status Of Women (February 28- March 2, 2000) And The Preparatory Committee For The Revision Process Of Beijing +5 (March 3-17, 2000)
United Nations Commission On The Status Of Women - Prep.Com. - Activities Report Closing Plenary Of The Prep.Com. The Prep.Com. has finished today at 5:30 p.m., and it cannot be said that it had a happy end, as a document approved in its whole could not be achieved. Many of the paragraphs are between parenthesis and others weren't even discussed. The reason for this was the slow advance of the discussion, caused in particular by the G77 +China. A political Statement was reached, with the abstention of only 2 countries. A closed intersectional session will be held on April 20 in New York with the missions of the countries in order to continue the negotiations. In the final session each block of countries expressed their good disposition towards dialogue and negotiation, so as to have a complete document before the Special Session in June. Among the different participations in this final plenary, the following ones can be mentioned:
LATIN AMERICAN CAUCUS The colleagues from the official delegations shared their perceptions about what was foreseen, that is to say, to be able to finish the negotiations and have a final document. From the section IV (Further actions and initiatives...), the group from the G77+China arrived to the paragraph 56, point k, which was not approved. When measuring the advances of this past two weeks, we find only 6 paragraphs approved, and most of them between parenthesis. The group discussing sections II III and I arrived to paragraph 30, the issue of family bringing the discussion to a standstill. The commission, in charge of elaborating the Statement of the Caucus for the governments participating in the Preparatory Conference, handed in the statement already corrected and it was put to the vote and approved by the persons present in this Caucus. Furthermore, an open letter was approved, in which we, as Caucus stated our standpoint regarding the Holy See, the Vatican, in particular its participation in the sessions of the United Nations, as the Vatican uses its status of Non-Member State, Permanent Observer "to impose its views about issues of vital importance for exercising women's human rights in a diverse, plural and multireligious world.
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