CHAPTER 5 Public affairs and International Cooperation Commissioner cooperates with local, regional and international organizations within her mandate under the Constitutional law. Thus, the organization of the work in public affairs and international cooperation is one of the key priorities of the Azerbaijan NPM activity. By 2015, exchange of views and cooperation with state and selfgoverning organizations, local civil society institutions, mass media, regional and international organizations, including foreign NPMs and joint projects were successfully continued. Within a past period of time, both national and international communities were regularly informed about the activity of Azerbaijan NPM. In general, during 2015, in mass media it has been released 68 press releases, 54 of which were dealt with the monitoring and 14 with legal awareness activities. Totally, within 2009-2015 years out of 695 released news 433 were about visits, whereas 262 were about news of awareness. Press releases, NPM Reports, the information on the NPG composition, related normative acts were placed on the official webpage of the Ombudsman Office in Azerbaijani and English languages. Besides placing the reports on the internet, they were also submitted to the relevant state bodies and international organizations. The relevance and statistics of the appeals to the Ombudsman and the information received by 24-hour hotline, from human rights defenders, mass media or facts ascertained through inspection directly on the spot or received by the state authorities given the instructions to investigate, collected materials were used during the visits. Moreover, Ombudsman’s staff visited the persons whose names repeatedly indicated in press, those detained or persecuted on a regular basis. The information related to the monitoring was released through mass media and placed on the official website. In 2015, evidently, Azerbaijan NPM developed its relations not only with state authorities, international institutions and non-governmental organizations but also with mass media in the field of prevention of acts of torture. International cooperation. The Commissioner also as an NPM, closely cooperates with various UN agencies and its Treaty based bodies, including CAT, SPT, CPT, CoE, EU, Organization for Security and Co-operation in 67