CAT/OP/ARM/2 follow-up to recommendations. After briefing the persons responsible for the facility visited, the national preventive mechanism should develop a strategy for presenting its visit reports to the authorities for publication and distribution and for using them as a platform for dialogue (see CAT/OP/1, para. 21, and CAT/OP/12/5, para. 38). Its visits will be much less effective if it does not issue a report following each visit. 59. The Subcommittee recommends that the national preventive mechanism prepare and make public a report on each visit it conducts (see CAT/OP/12/5, para. 36). The report should focus on prevention, identify the problems that exist and propose solutions in the form of recommendations. The recommendations must be concrete and well-founded, they should be directed at developing preventive measures to deal with shortcomings in systems and practices and they should be practicable (see CAT/OP/1, para. 20). 60. Pursuant to paragraph 36 of the Subcommittee’s guidelines on national preventive mechanisms, the Subcommittee recommends that the mechanism set up procedures for following up on its recommendations and that it do so, insofar as possible, in conjunction with the authorities. 61. The Subcommittee recommends that the national preventive mechanism issue an annual report describing the effectiveness of its interaction with the Government in assessing and eradicating torture and ill-treatment in places of detention in Armenia. The report should be publicized widely and be distinct from other statements related to the work of the Human Rights Defender’s Office. IV. Final recommendations 62. The Subcommittee regards its recent advisory visit and the present report as the commencement of a constructive dialogue with the national preventive mechanism of Armenia. The Subcommittee stands ready to provide technical assistance and advice to the mechanism, to reinforce its capacity to prevent torture and ill-treatment in all places of deprivation of liberty in Armenia and to translate the common goal of prevention from commitments into reality. 63. The Subcommittee recalls that prevention of torture constitutes an ongoing and wide-ranging obligation of the State party,1 and that that obligation is met through an efficient national preventive mechanism. The Subcommittee encourages the national preventive mechanism of Armenia to review and strengthen its working methods and to avail itself of training courses in order to improve its ability to discharge its responsibilities under the Optional Protocol, including through the assistance of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and to follow up on the present recommendations. 64. In conclusion, the Subcommittee is aware that the national preventive mechanism of Armenia is facing a complex challenge at the moment and that its legal, institutional and structural framework is at a crossroads, as its imminent revision is being considered. At the same time, it notes that this presents a unique opportunity, which the mechanism should seize, to revise its framework by clarifying it, thereby improving the efficiency of its activities. 65. The Subcommittee also encourages the national preventive mechanism to transmit its annual reports to the Subcommittee and to reaffirm its readiness to do all 1 10 See Committee against Torture general comment No. 2 (2008) on the implementation of article 2, paras. 3 and 4.