On 6/28/07, Vittorio Bertola <vb@bertola.eu> wrote:

Jacqueline A. Morris ha scritto:
> Hi
>
> With the rapid changes of the agenda here in San Juan, and the concept
> of unfairness to the RALOs that are not physically present in San Juan –
> they need to have similar access.
>
> So we will set up a teleconference that we will advertise in good time,
> we will have time for questions, etc.

May I put on the record that I find this wrong, and also unfair?

I have been waiting for the entire week to have a chance for a frank
discussion with the Committee about my nomination and the others. I have
refrained from going around and doing a lot of campaigning, first of all
because I think that the entire way we are thinking of this process is
wrong and we should make it a productive discussion about who of us is
best suited, rather than a beauty contest in which members of the
Committee are pushed to please this or that other person at their
request. And then, also because, as the current liaison, I am required
to be in several additional meetings and have scarce opportunities to
socialize or exchange views outside of our planned meetings.

There are several members of the Committee, including some who joined
just recently, with whom, differently from the other candidates, I have
had no chance to exchange any opinion or explain what I think, and I do
not think that a teleconference is a valid substitute for face to face
discussion.

Also, I am extremely concerned by the prospect of this going on for more
time, possibly weeks. I am afraid that this would bring just more
behind-the-scenes discussions and pressures for people to keep or change
their opinion. I am already displeased by what happened in the LACRALO
and I am afraid that this could bring more heated discussions in other
RALOs, and in the end put the cohesion of our group and our entire
constituency at risk, for a single appointment that is important, but
less important than all the hot policy issues we have on the agenda. A
lot of important policy decisions will be made this summer, and we
should be working on them, not on appointments.

I think that it would be a serious problem for me to be a "sub judice"
liaison for several weeks. If most people think that there is the need
for a change, let's just do it. By dragging this forward (and by the
way, this would violate a good number of the rules of procedure that
have taken us six months to agree, exactly because we did not want to
have procedural discussions again), it would look like we cannot conduct
our normal business in a serious manner, and this would damage the
entire Committee.

Thanks,
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