New Round of Meetings will be started

The following meetings will be planed before the Tunis Summit since its outcome document was not finalized and the PrepCom3 will be suspended. It was announced it at the end of the closing session and the dates, venue and modalities was decided by the PrepCom Bureau afterwards.

Intersessional negotiation work ( two meeting sessions )

It will be Governmental negotiation Process and the negotiating work will be held every day from 10.00 - 13.00 and from 15.00 - 18.00 hours in the Palais de Nations, Room XX, Gate 40. Interpretation in the six UN working languages will be provided. After each session, the President of PrepCom will inform the observers on the advancement of the work.

1. The first session

Date and time : from 10:00 to October 24 and 25, 2005
Objective: to finalize the negotiation on the Political Chapeau and on the paragraphs remained in brackets of Chapter two of the Operational Part

2. Second Session

Date: October 26 to 28, 2005
Objective: to finalize the negotiations on Chapters one and four of the Operational Part of the final documents of the Tunis phase.

Resumed PrepCom-3 back to back to the Tunis Summit

Date: 13-15 November 2005,
Information about the venue will be provided at a later stage. The resumed PrepCom-3 will start with a short organizational Plenary meeting. The modalities of work of the resumed PrepCom-3 will follow the Rules of Procedure of the PrepCom, including the participation of observers in Plenary and Subcommittee meetings. Interpretation in the six UN working languages will be provided.

Access to the Resumed Prepcom-3 session will be strictly limited to persons wearing a WSIS badge. WSIS badge can be collected at the WSIS Registration Centre (Boulevard du Leader Yasser Arafat, near the Tunis Carthage Airport, from 11 to 18 November 2005 from 0700 hours to 2200 hours).