<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Hi Nadira, All</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I really understand your decision to withdraw. I support you anyway.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Regards,</div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 1:59 AM Nadira Alaraj <<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><div dir="auto">Dear All,</div><div dir="auto">Greetings to all of you,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My decision of acceptance last night came in a very short time and without enough thoughts.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I had a second thought because members of this community don’t know me and don’t know my abilities.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Therefore, I decline my acceptance with great appreciation to those who nominated me and supported the nomination.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This hasty decision of mine gave me the energy to be more active contributors at the working groups at the NCUC/NCSG in order for the community to see my potential.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In the meantime and to let you know that I’m not away from policy work.</div><div dir="auto">I’m the co-chair for the Middle East Space and you can read about out policy statements in the link below</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://icannwiki.org/ICANN_ME_SPACE" target="_blank">https://icannwiki.org/ICANN_ME_SPACE</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto">Best wishes,</div><div dir="auto">Nadira </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 1:38 AM Nadira Alaraj <<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thank you Raoul for nominating me to the NCSG candidacy to the GNSO Council,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks to all who seconded my nomination,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I do accept the nomination, and shall send my candidate statement by tomorrow because it too late of the day for me.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Best wishes,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Nadira</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 6:39 PM Raoul Plommer <<a href="mailto:plommer@gmail.com" target="_blank">plommer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I would like to nominate Nadira Al-Araj to the GNSO council, she's been looking for meaningful work and I feel we have spades of it to offer to her!</div><div><br></div><div>She's been in ICANN longer than I have, works currently on the NomComRIWG and I believe she would be a sensible addition to our council team. She is from Palestine, so satisfies our geographic criteria as well. (Asia)</div><div><br></div><div>-Raoul</div></div>
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