[ga] FW from ncdnhc: GA Chair proposal from Names Council

[R.Gaetano@iaea.org]

Relevant to the GA Chair election
Regards
Roberto




-----Original Message-----
From: GAETANO, Roberto 
Sent: Friday, 12 November 1999 10:04 AM
To: 'KathrynKL@aol.com'; ncdnhc-discuss@lyris.isoc.org
Subject: RE: [ncdnhc document for review] GA Chair proposal from Names
Council


Kathryn,

> Do you have any comments or concerns about the document being 
> circulated by 
> the Names council (below) for election of the GA Chair?
> 

I do.

First of all, a minor introductory note:
The reference to Article VI-B, Section 4 seems irrelevant to me, considering
that the election of the GA Chair is covered on Article VI-B, Section 2 (j).

Now, to the point.
> 
> The Names Council has resolved that the first elections for such Chair
> of the General Assembly will take place between the December 11th and
> the 17th of December, 1999. Candidates for this election may be
> nominated between the 26th of November 1999 and the 10th of December
> 1999.
> 
> The Names Council will elect one Chair to the General 
> Assembly who will
> serve for a period of one year. Afterwards, a Chair will be elected
> every year to replace the Chair whose term has expired.
> 
> The Names Council hereby requests that the General Assembly 
> come up with
> nomination procedures for nominating candidates for election to the
> Chair of the General Assembly, and that it submit proposals 
> to the Names
> Council at [ELISABETH WHAT ADDRESS???] no later than November 19th,
> 1999.  
> 

I think that the first step is for the GA to agree on the nomination
procedure.
I am not really sure that the Council has to determine the nomination
procedure: the Bylaws only give to the Council the power to elect the Chair.

It will be best for everybody if the GA could come up with a proposal that
could be agreed by the Council, and that could at the same time provide an
indication of the real will of the GA. In other words, what I would like to
avoid is another Rick White case.

As a first step, it should be clear that for the GA Chair nomination only GA
participants should be qualified. I don't see any rationale for having also
the constituencies involved - I may say an obvious thing, but better to
clear up the road in front.

I will also post this to the GA, hope you don't mind.

Regards
Roberto

> The nomination mechanism adopted by the Names Council and to 
> be used to
> nominate the Chair of the General Assembly will be posted in the DNSO
> website no later than November 26th.  Nominations pursuant to the
> nomination mechanism adopted by the Names Council must be 
> sent by e-mail
> to {ELISABETH, WHERE????] between the 26th of November 1999 
> and the 10th
> of December 1999 (18:00 CET, see 
> http://www.dnso.org/timeworld.html for
> local time in other 
> places). Any and all emails relating to the
> nomination and election of the Chair of the General Assembly will be
> published in the www.dnso.org website. Any mail sent to any 
> other e-mail
> address will not be considered.
> 
>  
> 
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