<div dir="auto"><div>Dear All,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm cancelling the call for topics <span style="font-family:sans-serif">and the timeline for ICANN 67 ME Space. The s</span>ession will be for MEAC-SWG dedicated to discuss the MEAC Strategy.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best wishes,</div><div dir="auto">ME Space Leading Team</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 15:55 Nadira Alaraj <<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">Dear All,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">Preparing for
the ME Space in Cancun, the leading team Tijani Ben Jemaa, and Nadira Al-Araj
would like to propose to the MEAC community the following timeline:</span></p>
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final statement to ICANN concerning body</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">We therefore
call on you to propose your preferred topic to be addressed at ICANN 6</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">7</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy"> in </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">Cancun</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:navy"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">The chosen topics should be current and of high interest at ICANN.</span></p>
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your choice </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">before</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy"> Friday </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">24 </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy"> 20</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">20</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy"> at 23:59 UTC.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">We appreciate if
@Rafik can kindly forward this call to the members of the new MEAC Strategy Working
Group. </span></p>
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shall take notes and acknowledge receipt of the proposed topics.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy"><br></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">ME Space L</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">eading </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">T</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy">eam</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:navy"></span></p></div></div>
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