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Dear Andrew,</p>
<p dir="ltr">That is a good gesture.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Let us now move forward as one team. Focused on making AfriNIC a vibrant and formidable organization.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thank you.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Abdalla Omari<br></p>
<div class="quote">On Dec 1, 2016 8:10 AM, Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com> wrote:<br type='attribution'><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">Hi All,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">Following the policy meeting where the community requested that the authors of both soft-landing policies withdraw their respective policies and work together on a unified policy, and the commitments made
to the community by both sets of authors of both policies, my co-authors and I are hereby unconditionally withdrawing policy AFPUB-2016-V4-003-DRAFT02.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">We will be reaching out to the authors of the other policy to see their exact position, and will communicate in the coming days on potential ways forward.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">Thanks</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">Andrew</span></p>
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