This Friday in DC: Citizens Prep Meeting for World Summit on Sustainable Development

Some of you may be in DC this Friday for the econference at GWU.
You might consider attending this; to date we haven't had many youth groups
present at our prep meetings. (I'm probably partly to blame, as the youngest
staff member I haven't had time to properly promote the meetings.)

As a US policy issue, sustainable development is arguably even more
important now in this post-attack climate, both for domestic and
international reasons.  The World Summit isn't until September 2002, but the
majority of the agenda and proposed outcomes will be determined by March.  I
encourage you to get involved...

Gary Pupurs
Integrative Strategies Forum (CitNet's secretariat)
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Announcing a US Citizens Preparatory Meeting for the
World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)

THIS Friday, October 19, 1- 4 p.m.
Held by the Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet)

Location: National Wildlife Federation, 1400 16th Street
(corner of 16th Street and P Street)

The first hour will consist of a briefing and discussion with the State
Department and others on the US Government Delegation to WSSD, followed by a
CitNet NGO strategy session to help coordinate US NGO preparation efforts.

We welcome all newcomers interested in the issues and encourage you to ask
questions, but a minimal level of knowledge about the World Summit will be
beneficial.
Since this is a follow up to previous meetings, attendees are expected to be
familiar with the Summit process and keep questions focused.  You may find a
summary of most recent intergovernmental meeting attended by the US
government, the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE ) Second Regional
Consultatative Meeting in Geneva, Sept. 21-22 at:
http://www.citnet.org/worldsummit/preparations/regional.aspx

Other information on the Summit can be found in the Citizens Guide to the
World Summit: http://www.citnet.org/worldsummit/

If you would like to suggest topics to be addressed and/or to discuss at
next Friday's
meeting, please contact CitNet to be added to the speakers list.   We
encourage any experts to raise pertinent questions for the US government
delegation.  Priority will be given to those on the speakers the
list.Questions and answers from other attendees will be taken as time
allows.

 Please RSVP to [email protected] and/or 301-770-6375.

Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet)
C/O  ISF
Phone:  301-770-6375
Fax:  301-770-6377