<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I
hope this email finds you well. The ICANN67 Meeting is scheduled
for March 7 - 12, 2020 in CancĂșn, Mexico. As with previous ICANN meetings, we plan to hold the Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN meeting. We would like to invite you to submit topics for this session. Our previous statements have focused on issues like: evolving the ICANN Multistakeholder model, New gTLD Subsequent Procedures, enhancing ICANN accountability, etc. Please see our previous statements <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/AFRALO/Joint+AFRALO-AfrICANN+Statements+Workspace">here</a>. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Please see our proposed timeline: <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Call for topics: 9 - 16 January 2020<br>Topic announcement and call for drafting team: 17 - 22 January 2020<br>Drafting of Statement: 23 January - 13 February 2020<br>Send Statement to Staff for translation: 14 February 2020 </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Please send your suggested topics by <b>Thursday, 16 January 2020</b>, after which the drafting team will prepare a draft statement that will be shared with the rest of the members. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Looking forward to your contributions. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Kind regards, <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Sarah Kiden</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il">AFRALO</span> Secretariat</div></div></div>