<html><head></head><body>Technically, the terms “near-east”, “middle-east” and “far-east” are artifacts from colonial days, aren’t they? Not that this is necessarily relevant to our current discussion on which countries qualify as middle-eastern, and which do not, but just thought I’d offer the thought. :-)<div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Amr<br class=""/><div><br class=""/><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 8, 2019, at 6:01 PM, Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi <<a href="mailto:Hadia@tra.gov.eg" class="">Hadia@tra.gov.eg</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Thank you Fahd for your reply and your clarification. As per the definition that you included I believe that the name is inclusive and therefore there is no need for further considerations.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Best<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Hadia<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Middle-East [<a href="mailto:middle-east-bounces@icann.org" class="">mailto:middle-east-bounces@icann.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Fahd Batayneh<br class=""/><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, October 08, 2019 5:35 PM<br class=""/><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Middle East ICANN<br class=""/><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [ME ICANN] Montreal ME Space statement first draft for your comment : MEAC or ME Space??<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" class="">Dear All,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" class="">Just to note that the region “<b class="">Middle East</b>” does not have an agreed upon definition by any institute or organization. There are different definitions that include a different set of countries.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" class="">For ICANN, the definition of “<b class="">Middle East</b>” as per our engagement within the Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) Team includes the 22 Arab States, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The mentioned 26 countries were included as part of the “<b class="">Middle East</b>” we cover due to geographical, linguistic, and cultural reasons.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" class="">Unless there is a strong reason to do otherwise, I’d suggest we stick to the term “<b class="">Middle East</b>” to reflect the 26 countries mentioned earlier.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" class="">Thank you,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" class="">Fahd<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Middle-East <<a href="mailto:middle-east-bounces@icann.org" class="">middle-east-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Nadira Alaraj <<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" class="">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>><br class=""/><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 4:10 PM<br class=""/><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Hadia El Miniawi <<a href="mailto:Hadia@tra.gov.eg" class="">Hadia@tra.gov.eg</a>><br class=""/><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<a href="mailto:middle-east@icann.org" class="">middle-east@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:middle-east@icann.org" class="">middle-east@icann.org</a>><br class=""/><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [ME ICANN] Montreal ME Space statement first draft for your comment : MEAC or ME Space??<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Dear Hadia and Foad,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Here what I have replied on the thread with some editing and addition.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The "ME Space" was approved by Baher and Fahd and the MEAC-SWG since the inception of ME Space.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The reasoning that MEAC term is not being used to describe ICANN geographical subregion. Hence when ME Space sessions are scheduled in ICANN meeting it has to go per the common name.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">This issue of MEAC was debated in length at the MEAC-SWG but this discussion lead no where. (MEAC-SWG emails are publicly available and you can search through it. Given the fact that some members objected on the use of MEAC).<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hence, I shall be careful of starting this discussion here and leaving the name as ME Space as the status quo.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Best wishes <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Nadira <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 15:20 Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi <<a href="mailto:Hadia@tra.gov.eg" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Hadia@tra.gov.eg</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin: 5pt 0in 5pt 4.8pt;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Dear All,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">One issue that Foad puts forward on the google document and I think is worth discussing on the list is whether it should be the ME Space or the MEAC Space, some of the contributors to the document are from the wider ME east – the MEAC region.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">So my question to the list should it be the MEAC Space or the ME Space and why?</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Thanks</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Hadia</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nadira Alaraj [mailto:<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""/><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, October 08, 2019 2:12 PM<br class=""/><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi<br class=""/><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [ME ICANN] Montreal ME Space statement first draft for your comment</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Thank you Hadia </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">I provided some replies to Fouad, </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">you can follow with them as well.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 3:10 PM Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi <<a href="mailto:Hadia@tra.gov.eg" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Hadia@tra.gov.eg</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin: 5pt 0in 5pt 4.8pt;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">It is resolved, I do have ownership</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""/><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, October 08, 2019 2:05 PM<br class=""/><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'Nadira Alaraj'<br class=""/><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tijani BENJEMAA;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:middle-east@icann.org" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">middle-east@icann.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com</a><br class=""/><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: [ME ICANN] Montreal ME Space statement first draft for your comment</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Thank you</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Hadia</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nadira Alaraj [mailto:<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""/><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, October 08, 2019 2:04 PM<br class=""/><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi<br class=""/><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tijani BENJEMAA;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:middle-east@icann.org" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">middle-east@icann.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com</a><br class=""/><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [ME ICANN] Montreal ME Space statement first draft for your comment</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Dear Hadia,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I thought you have created a new document.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Let me check the Google document and see how to give you the ownership.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Best wishes <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Nadira <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 14:37 Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi <<a href="mailto:Hadia@tra.gov.eg" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Hadia@tra.gov.eg</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin: 5pt 0in 5pt 4.8pt;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Thank you Tijani for your updates. It is better that you put the edits on the word document as I do not have the right to accept on the google document. Zakir has made some edits that I was going to add to the original, but could not accept through the google document.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Kind regards</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Hadia</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Middle-East [mailto:<a href="mailto:middle-east-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">middle-east-bounces@icann.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Tijani BEN JEMAA<br class=""/><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, October 08, 2019 1:33 PM<br class=""/><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:middle-east@icann.org" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">middle-east@icann.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:middle-east@icann.org" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">middle-east@icann.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com</a>;<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a><br class=""/><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [ME ICANN] Montreal ME Space statement first draft for your comment</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><p class="m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863p1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863s1"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Dear Hadia and all,</span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863p2" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863p1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863s1"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">First of all, I would like to thank Hadia for this excellent draft. I have some inputs that I want to provide (see the file).</span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863p1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863s1"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">I used the red color for text that I propose to remove, blue for text I propose to add and Green for my comment.</span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863p2" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 69.3pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy;" class="">------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""/><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Tijani BENJEMAA</span></strong><br class=""/>Executive Director<br class=""/>Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (<strong class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">FMAI</span></strong>)<br class=""/>Telephone: +216 52 385 114<br class=""/>------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""/></div></body></html>