38 5.8. Cooperation with other NPMs In the course of 2015, the Serbian NPM continued the cooperation within the South-East Europe NPM Network. In 2016, the NPM representatives participated in the meetings organized by South-East Europe NPM Network (the NPM Network), held in Salzburg, Vienna and Zagreb. The topic of the meeting held in Salzburg in April 2016 was the conditions of accommodation and treatment in social welfare institutions with a focus on homes for the elderly persons and deprivation of liberty by overmedication. The topic of the meeting held in Vienna was the homes for the elderly and/or standards in medical care and medication-based deprivation of liberty. The meeting of the Network held in Zagreb in November, had several topics: improvement of monitoring the actions upon recommendations of national mechanisms, implementation of UN Mandela rules, including the role of NPMs in the protection of refugees and migrants. In mid-December 2016, the NPM of Serbia organized the two-day meeting of NPM Network in Belgrade, attended by the representatives of Network members, including the representatives of associations in Serbia. The topic of the meeting was the preventive approach to the protection of human rights of refugees and migrants in the SEE countries. On the first day of the meeting, the Network members shared their experience from visits to locations where refugees and migrants are staying and the future plans and challenges related to the protection and improvement of the rights of refugees and migrants. After having addressed the meeting, the participants were split into two groups to visit the Asylum Center in Krnjača and informal gathering place of migrants in Belgrade. On the second day, the members of NPM Network shared their impressions and observations from the visits in Belgrade and discussed future challenges to be encountered by the Network, after which certain steps of the NPM in the region have been defined, to prevent maltreatment of refugees and migrants. 72 5.9. Distribution of the Annual NPM Report The Republic of Serbia ensured, as in previous years, that the NPM Annual Report for 2015 is published and distributed.72 This was directly conducted by NPM. NPM Annual Report for the year of 2015 was submitted to the National Assembly, sectoral ministries, as well as to associations and experts the NPM cooperated with in different areas. In order to inform the general public, the Report was also posted on the web page of the Protector of Citizens and NPM73. Moreover, the publication is available in Serbian and English languages. 72 Optional Protocol, Article 23. 73 http://www.zastitnik.rs/attachments/2902_izvestaj_%20NPM_%202012.pdf .