Statement from Sweden

“Sweden notes that different views were expressed on the modalities for the overall review of the WSIS outcomes and the vision for the post-2015 information society.

Sweden recalls that the decision on the modalities for the overall review will be taken by the United Nations General Assembly later in 2013.

Sweden recalls article 105 of the Tunis Agenda that

• requests that ECOSOC oversees the system-wide follow-up of the Geneva and Tunis outcomes of WSIS
• and ECOSOC resolution 2006/46 that, in regards to the role of  the Commission for Science and Technology for Development (CSTD,) states that
  
  “In accordance with General Assembly resolutions 57/270 B and 60/252, the Commission shall effectively assist the Economic and Social Council as the focal point in the system wide follow-up, in particular the review and assessment of progress made in implementing the outcomes of the Summit.”

Furthermore Sweden notes with satisfaction that the CSTD held its 16th session on 3-7 June 2013 and that it proposed that

• the Commission should collect inputs from all facilitators and stakeholders and to organize a substantive discussion during its seventeenth Session in 2014 on the progress made in the implementation of the WSIS outcomes, and to report through ECOSOC to the UN General Assembly as it makes an overall review of the implementation of WSIS outcomes in 2015.
• and that the Commission after its 18th Session should submit its ten-year review of the progress made in the implementation of WSIS outcomes through ECOSOC to the General Assembly as it makes an overall review of the implementation of WSIS outcomes in 2015.”