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<p><span style="font-family: microsoft sans serif; color: Red; font-size: 10pt;"><b>OFFICIAL
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Dear Keith and colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Firstly</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">the GAC small team would like to thank the entire EPDP team for their work during this very difficult time and as ever the GAC look forward to continuing its support to future processes. Talking of support
a massive thank you to Keith and all the ICANN staff both those seen and unseen on the zoom calls for helping all of us to be able to do this work.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Please find attached the GAC’s Minority Statement also available here
<a href="https://gac.icann.org/statement/public/gac-minority-statement-epdp-2a-10sep21.pdf">
https://gac.icann.org/statement/public/gac-minority-statement-epdp-2a-10sep21.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Best Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Chris Lewis-Evans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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