- 23 IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS 78. 1992 was a year of consolidation for the CPT. Seven countries were visited by CPT delegations, a small increase as compared to the previous year. By the end of 1992, sixteen of the twenty-three Parties to the Convention had been visited by the Committee on a periodic basis. The remaining Parties to the Convention should receive periodic visits during the course of 1993. Consequently, some four years after its inaugural meeting, the CPT will have completed its first round of visits. This will provide an appropriate opportunity to take stock of the Committee's work. In this connection, the CPT intends to organise a meeting of all the liaison officers appointed by States Parties under Article 15 of the Convention. 79. The possible extension of the CPT's activities beyond the framework of the Council of Europe remains under consideration. The CPT has referred in its 1st and 2nd General Reports to the possibility of opening the Convention to accession by non-member States, and in particular to States members of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) which are not members of the Council of Europe. The Committee of Ministers has now instructed the Steering Committee for Human Rights to prepare a draft Protocol to the Convention permitting such an opening. The CPT is grateful to the Committee of Ministers for having stipulated that the CPT should be associated with work on the draft Protocol. 80. Further, in its Recommendation 1183 (1992) adopted on 5 May 1992, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recommended inter alia that the Committee of Ministers "enable European States which are members of the CSCE but not of the Council of Europe ..... to invite the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture to visit places of detention in these countries." The CPT understands this recommendation is designed to take into account that the adoption and entry into force of the draft Protocol opening the Convention to accession by non-member States (a step also recommended by the Assembly) would inevitably take several years. 81. The CPT welcomes the initiative taken by the Assembly; in principle it is in favour of the Assembly's recommendation. Such an extension of the monitoring and preventive action carried out by the Committee could only be beneficial for the cause of human rights. However, the additional resources required by such activities would have to be clearly identified in advance and made available. On no account should the carrying out of visits to non-member States outside the framework of the Convention be allowed to jeopardise the Committee's activities under the Convention.