A/HRC/4/33/Add.2 Page 9 has been translated into Azeri; accordingly, the Government is invited to give favourable consideration to putting emphasis, in the technical cooperation programme, on training activities for the police and possibly investigators of the Ministry of National Security once recommendation (i) has been implemented. 30. The Government informed that under the umbrella of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Southern Caucasus regional project, in 2001 it approved a one-year project to assist it in ensuring that national laws comply with international human rights standards and in strengthening the ability of the Government and civil society to report to the human rights treaty bodies. With this aim, the project focused on training of government officials, staff of the Ombudsman's Office and civil society organizations on treatybody reporting and follow-up to recommendations, as well as on training judges, prosecutors and lawyers on United Nations human rights instruments and mechanisms pertaining to the administration of justice. The project also included the translation of relevant OHCHR manuals into Azeri, and training of officials working in the penitentiary system. The objectives of the project include: increasing knowledge of the international human rights system, including treatybody reporting and follow-up to treaty body recommendations, and improving knowledge and understanding of international human rights law through training of judges, lawyers, prosecutors and staff of the penitentiary system, and through the provision of comprehensive training material. In December 2005 the first workshop under the project, on treaty-body reporting and follow-up, was organized for a wide range of government officials. Participants included, among others, staff from the Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Economic Development, the Committee for Women's Issues, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the Office of the Ombudsman. Additionally, in preparation for training on the administration of justice, which was held in 2006, relevant OHCHR training material was distributed and the OHCHR professional training manual on human rights and pretrial detention was translated into Azeri. It has to be noted that in the first stage of the project training, sessions on human rights were organized for the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and students of the Police Academy. At present the Government continues to discuss future cooperation in the framework of this project with OHCHR. In this regard the Special Rapporteur’s recommendation to emphasise training activities for police will be taken into consideration. 31. Recommendation (k) stated: The Government should also consider requesting advisory services from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding training activities for officials from the General Prosecutor’s Office. 32. See response to Recommendation (j) above. 33. Recommendation (l) stated: The Government is invited to consider favourably making the declaration provided for in article 22 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, whereby the Committee against Torture could receive individual complaints from persons alleging non-compliance with the terms of the Convention. It is also invited similarly to consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights so that the Human Rights Committee can receive individual complaints.