A/HRC/8/52 page 69 III. President’s statements adopted by the Council at its eighth session PRST/8/1. Modalities and practices for the universal periodic review process On 9 April 2008, the President of the Council made a statement reading as follows: I. Modalities of work for troika members before the session of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review 1. States that wish to raise questions and/or issues with the State under review may do so via the troika, which shall relay them to the Secretariat. These questions and/or issues should conform to the basis of the review, as identified by the Human Rights Council in paragraph 1 of the annex to its resolution 5/1 on institution-building of the Council, and shall be raised in a manner that is consistent with the principles and objectives of the universal periodic review, as stated in resolution 5/1, and be based mainly on the three universal periodic review documents. 2. The Secretariat shall then transmit all questions and/or issues to the State under review no later than 10 working days before the date of the review in the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review. 3. The troika members shall cluster the questions and/or issues in accordance with the content and the structure of the report prepared by the State under review. 4. As the universal periodic review is, inter alia, a transparent process, the questions and/or issues will be circulated among Member and Observer States after being relayed to the State under review. 5. The State under review is sovereign in addressing the questions and/or issues it chooses to answer of those transmitted to it by the troika members or raised during the proceedings of the Working Group. II. Modalities for the Review in the Working Group 6. The interactive dialogue of the universal periodic review exercise takes place solely in the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review. 7. The State under review will be given up to 60 minutes in the Working Group, to be used for: (a) (b) desired; Initial presentation of the national report/responses to written questions; Replies to the questions raised from the floor during the interactive dialogue, if (c) Concluding comments at the end of the review, in an interactive dialogue under the guidance of the President.