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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Last Thursday Volker and I attended a call, hosted by Chris Disspain from the Board, to start planning for Meeting B (Policy Forum), in Helsinki in June.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">As a first step, we have been asked to, by 8 April 2016, identify a list of issues or topics that the GNSO would be interested in discussing at small or large cross-community sessions during the Helsinki meeting.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It would seem that as a rough guide the afternoons will be assigned for cross-community engagement and the mornings will be made available for independent SO/AC work or bilateral meetings depending on requirements;
however, the schedule will be developed once it is better understood what the respective requirements of all SOs and ACs.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It is not expected that there will be a public forum, the Board will not meet with constituencies separately, ie no Constituency Tuesday, and no formal Board meeting.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">As discussed in Marrakech, there was support for the idea that the Policy Forum be used as an opportunity to progress policy development processes, namely:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The Council could also use some of the time available in Helsinki to discuss workload prioritisation and working methods, but these are just suggestions.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">As we will need to inform Tanzanica King of our topics by 8 April, it would be useful if we could receive individual contributions by 5 April so that we can agree a consolidated list to provide to Tanzie on the
8<sup>th</sup>.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We look forward to hearing from all of you on the issue of topics and issues you would like discussed in Helsinki.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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