Friday 13 March 2009

Meeting the Austrians

We have had our discussion with a delegate from the Austrian government Eva Schofer about the Austrian's resolution. We highlighted for Eva some the key elements that we would like as a group for her to reinforce, the main feature being "Rehabilitation and Reintegration". We spoke with her about our personal experiences to give her a clear and concise view about what we hope we could get out of the Austrian's resolution as well.

We also were told that we need to do some work to give the resolution more credibility and that if we can get more co-sponsors that it can have a greater impact overall. Eva informed us about the real key aspects of the resolution, the main element for us being "Education" this incorporates rehabilitation and reintegration.

Eva thanked us and said "that even for us it is really good to meet up with a group like this, because for us it can seem very endless and without a cause". We then finalised the meeting by asking a few personal questions and then thanked her for giving us the time to have our say in the resolution.

Martin


(Me, writing this post - thanks to matts iphone!!)

1 comment:

  1. This kind of meeting is the reason that it's so important that it's you, as young people, out there in Geneva lobbying.

    I am sure that your personal experiences made you completely different to anyone who these delegates will speak to and you can bet they will remember what you said much more clearly than some grey suited, grey-haired, grey-opinioned diplomat.

    Really pleased that the meeting went so well and it's fantastic to hear about the impact that your presence is having there!

    Keep up the very good work!

    Mike

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