Re: [council] Need a Quorum for Monday Meeting

[William Drake <william.drake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello

On Mar 14, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Rosette, Kristina wrote:

> 
> Would each SG please identify its proposed endorsees for its slot, the 
> unaffiliated slot, and the "open" slot?  (Same request for the Evaluation 
> Team, please.).

As noted some time ago, it would have been much better if SGs have notified 
earlier, e.g. after constituency day.  That way the ET would have known for 
sure which four were going to the allocated slots and didn't need to be 
considered, so it could concentrate on those standing for the elected slots.  
Accordingly, I announced NCSG's endorsements at the 10 March open council 
session in Nairobi: Willie Currie (South Africa) for the allocated slot, 
Hakikur Rahman (Bangladesh) for the open slot.  We didn't concern ourselves 
with formally endorsing someone for the unaffiliated slot—again, endorsing and 
voting are separate issues, the former of which is merely a preference 
indicator---but suspect there will be votes for Elaine.

In any event, absent formal word on other SG endorsements, the ET proceeded 
based on what we'd been told informally, and concentrated on those we 
understood to be standing for election.  Caroline will be sending the ET's doc 
to the council but technically it'd be better to hear first that the 
assumptions we proceeded on were correct.

> Our call is likely to be much shorter if we receive the names in advance and 
> have time to consider them.  It doesn't do anyone any good if the names 
> aren't available until right before the call.

Just to make sure we are clear: all the names are known now.  They've been on 
the website since 7 March, in most cases earlier than that.  Subtract from them 
a) Eric, who wants to be considered for the Security and Stability RT later on, 
b) Willie Currie, and c) your guess or knowledge as to who RgySG, RgrSG, and 
CSG are endorsing for their allocated slots, and you have the list of people 
who are standing for election.  Note that all but two of these are widely known 
and/or self-declared to SG affiliated, and you know who's standing for the open 
and unaffiliated slots.  Then decide who's your top preference in each list 
and/or who you could live with in order to have a balanced list that meets the 
diversity criteria we agreed et voila.

Cheers,

Bill