10 Publications 21. The well-established trend towards States lifting the veil of confidentiality and publishing CPT visit reports and government responses was confirmed once again during the period covered by this General Report. Over the last twelve months, reports on seventeen visits have been published by the Committee, at the request of the governments concerned. At the time of writing, 184 of the 225 visit reports so far drawn up have been placed in the public domain. A State-by-State table showing the current situation is set out in Appendix 4. Specific reference should be made to the publication of the reports on five visits to Turkey organised between 1990 to 1996, together with the responses of the Turkish Government. Examination of these documents relating to the early years of the CPT’s activities in Turkey will facilitate an accurate assessment of the progress that has subsequently been made in this country towards combating torture and other forms of ill-treatment. 22. The CPT also welcomes the decision by the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina to authorise publication of the preliminary observations made by the Committee's delegation at the end of the March 2007 periodic visit, together with their response. Timely publication of such observations means that the principal findings of a CPT delegation will become widely known at an early stage rather than months after the event. 23. Further updates of the information pack, containing various materials describing the CPT’s modus operandi and the standards developed by the Committee, have been produced during the last twelve months. The pack is currently available in nineteen languages and is posted in all of those languages on the CPT’s website; printed copies can be obtained from the Committee’s Secretariat. A new edition of the CD-ROM containing the whole of the CPT’s website was issued in May 2007. CPT: 17TH GENERAL REPORT