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<p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">Please find below a submission from Heather Forrest on behalf the
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"> Cross Community Working Group (CWG) on the use of Country and Territory Names. It will be added to the Council agenda under Any Other Business.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US">Glen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">Glen de Saint Géry<br>
GNSO Secretariat<br>
<b><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a></b><br>
<b><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/">http://gnso.icann.org</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">On behalf of</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
Heather Forrest </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dear Glen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I hope this message finds you well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">On behalf of Carlos Raúl Gutierrez and myself, co-chairs of the Cross-Constituency Working Group on Country and Territory Names (CWG), I respectfully submit the attached letter which the CWG proposes to submit as a comment
to the GAC sub-working group on geographic names. The CWG seeks to notify the GNSO Council of this letter via the upcoming Council meeting and will seek the Council’s non-objection to submission of the letter. I would therefore be grateful for your inclusion
of this item on the agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Many thanks and best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Heather Forrest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Heather Ann Forrest</span></b><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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