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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Councillors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Attached please find the draft minutes of the Council teleconference held on 13 October 2016 for your review.<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:FR">If there are no comments, these minutes will be published on the website as approved, according to the
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<span style="color:windowtext">GNSO Rules of Procedure </span>[gnso.icann.org]</a> section 3.5 "If no objections are received within 10 days, the minutes will be deemed to have been approved for posting" on 4 November 2016.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:FR">Kind regards,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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