A special award will also be given to Professor M.T.M. Willemse, who helped to foster this series of meetings that have been held every two years since 1968. He has been centrally involved in the governance of the association since its creation in 1990. He will receive the award at the banquet. A question was asked about availability of mass transit for local transportation. Trains connect Warsaw and Lublin via an approximately two-hour journey.
Transit buses are also available from the airport.
Darlene Southworth moved, Harry Horner seconded that the General Assembly accept the recommendation of the Executive and that the XVII Congress be held in Lublin, Poland. The dates and exact arrangements will be determined by the local coordinators. President Sawhney announced that the Executive Board had recommended that the 2004 Congress be held in Beijing, China under the direction of Professor Yi-Qin Li. This would be conducted in cooperation with Beijing University and Tsingsua University in Beijing. The dates and meeting arrangements will be determined by the local coordinators.