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Dear Veni,<br>
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tactually, there are many, many issues which the EU member countries
were not happy with. But there was also an initiative to try and
show understanding with the Chair's latest compromise version of the
ITRs, by signing and emitting reservations about the articles which
they wanted to be out of. However this could only be possible if
there were no other changes to a set of ITRs which had seen Europe
make a lot of concessions already.<br>
The Rights of States is the feather that broke the camel's back --
one too many concessions to make, especially for a region of the
world who base their policy on human rights, having to compare these
*individual* human rights with the right of states to communicate,
this "right" being pushed by those very countries who lost that
right through embargo because they themselves commit human right
abuses.<br>
That was way too much to take.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/12/2012 12:32, Veni Markovski
wrote:<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Jozef,<br>
The most important thing that prevented the EU countries from
signing (aside the political memory of ACTA and alike), is the
article about the rights of states. The Minister has properly
indicated they will discuss the ITRs with the Polish community.
Nobody knows what the discussions will decide, but if the EU
laws are clear on the rights of states, it wouldn't matter. <br>
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v.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/17/2012 06:06, JotHal wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">The crux of the matter is what we are doing next.
Polish minister Michal Boni said: "I would like to bring the revised
text of ITRs to Poland and in open and collaborative environment
discuss its implications with the Polish public opinion."
And earlier: "We have not only a mandate from my government but also a
strong mandate from the Polish society. Because of this we cannot
accept the current text of ITR."
At government website one can read that Poland is not going to sign.
Jozef Halbersztadt
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