Human Rights Council 8/PRST/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.