A/66/44 Rights (OHCHR): the eleventh Inter-Committee Meeting, held in Geneva from 28 to 30 June 2010, was attended by Ms. Felice Gaer and Mr. Claudio Grossman; the latter also participated in the twenty-second meeting of chairpersons held in Brussels on 1 and 2 July 2010. The first session of the Inter-Committee Meeting working group on follow-up to concluding observations, inquiries, visits and decisions, held in Geneva from 12 to 14 January 2011, was attended by Ms. Gaer and Mr. Fernando Mariño. 9. In the context of the treaty body strengthening process, Mr. Alessio Bruni, Ms. Gaer. Mr. Luis Gallegos and Mr. Xuexian Wang participated in a joint treaty body consultation with members of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva on 7 May 2011. The objectives of the consultations between treaty body members organized by the Human Rights Treaty Division of OHCHR were (a) to provide an open space for members of treaty bodies to identify options for the future of their work and the treaty body system as a whole, including by addressing their working methods, and (b) to allow treaty body members to discuss in advance issues tabled by the Inter-Committee Meeting and the Meeting of Chairpersons in order to be able to identify grounds for agreement. 10. The Chairperson of the Committee, Mr. Grossman, participated in the informal technical consultation with States parties held in Sion, Switzerland, on 12 and 13 May 2011. The technical consultation’s main objectives were (a) to identify ways to improve treaty periodic reporting and implementation as well as States’ cooperation with treaty bodies and (b) to share good practices, expectations and innovative approaches as experienced by States. F. Oral report of the Chairperson to the General Assembly 11. Further to the invitation to the Chairperson of the Committee to present an oral report on the work of the Committee and to engage in an interactive dialogue with the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session under the sub-item entitled “Implementation of human rights instruments” (General Assembly resolution 64/153, para. 27), the Chairperson of the Committee presented an oral report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session on 19 October 2010. The oral report may be found on the OHCHR website (http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/index.htm). G. Activities of the Committee in connection with the Optional Protocol to the Convention 12. As at 3 June 2011, there were 59 States parties to the Optional Protocol (see annex V to the present report). As required by the Optional Protocol to the Convention, on 16 November 2010, a joint meeting was held between the members of the Committee and the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture (hereinafter “the Subcommittee on Prevention”). Both the Committee and the Subcommittee on Prevention (membership of the Subcommittee on Prevention is included in annex VI) strengthen the modalities for cooperation, such as the mutual sharing of information, taking into account confidentiality requirements. 13. A further meeting was held between the Committee and the Chairperson of the Subcommittee on Prevention on 10 May 2011 where the latter submitted its fourth public annual report to the Committee (CAT/C/46/2). The Committee decided to include it in the present annual report (see annex VII) and to transmit it to the General Assembly. 2 GE.11-45568