In this connection, the ICC made a decision to call on its members,  the General Secretariat, the Host Country Committee, the study commissions or their equivalent, all delegations and other entities present in the TIA to submit their respective assessments of the TIA to the ICC through the ICG.

Accordingly, we request all of you  to make comments  in order to appreciate as well as to criticize any general or specific aspect of the preparations, the program, conduct, circumstances  and immediate aftermath of the TIA and to give the suggestions for improving work or  correcting anything that needs to be corrected.

We expect a wide variety of comments and suggestions from you because of the different types, levels and scales of your experiences and observations relative  to the TIA.  But we hope that we can put together all the comments and suggestions to make a well-grounded assessment of the general and specific aspects of the TIA.

It is up to you how to write your comments and suggestions on any aspect of whatever type, level or scale within your experience or observation.  The most important consideration is that  you put forward whatever you think needs to be appreciated in order to be encouraged and whatever is to be criticized for the purpose of correction and  improvement.

While your memory and notes on the TIA are still fresh, please write your comments and suggestions as soon as possible and submit these to us before the end of July.  The new International Coordinating Group (ICG)  will consolidate and sum up your comments and suggestions in  its first meeting in early autumn 2008.  The resultant collective assessment by the ICG  will be submitted to the ICC for review and finalization.

For the International Coordinating Committee,

Professor Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson