with mental health problems in practice, best practices; as well as the activities carried out by national human rights structures, assisting with the rights of persons with mental health problems; means of assistance of national human rights structures in relation to the rights of persons with mental health problems, and promoting the rights of persons with mental health problems. The activities carried out by the Commissioner as the NPM in 2009-2010 and gained achievements were also discussed and highly appreciated at the workshop on “Service User and Prisoner Participation in Monitoring Places of Detention” co-organized by the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre and the Justice Chancellor of Estonia by the support of the Penal Reform International and Zennström Philanthropies in Tallinn on 20-21 January 2011, which was attended by member of the NPM Group R.T.Samadov. Thus, the participants highly appreciated the Commissioner’ activity in the given field, her work style and methodology, as well as that she along with conducting visits, had also analyzed the laws and provided proposals and recommendations and welcomed the fact that the additions and amendments to the Constitutional Law intended for expanding the scope of her powers, as suggested by the proposals and recommendations of the Commissioner and the relevant international bodies, was adopted at the first voting last year. The information given at the above mentioned and other events about the work done by the Commissioner within a short period of time with respect to organizing the NPM’s work and ensuring its functioning has been welcomed and highly appreciated by the representatives of international organizations, prominent experts, and the Commissioner’s peers in foreign countries. The international relations established and successfully maintained by the Commissioner, her mutual and close collaboration with her peers in foreign countries allows her to take care of the conditions of detention of Azerbaijan citizens deprived of their liberty outside the country, treatment of them, observance of their rights and freedoms as well. It is no coincidence that when Commissioner E.Suleymanov was in Moscow, Russia on an official trip from 25 June to 1 July 2009, she requested her Russian colleague to pay attention to the conditions of Azerbaijan citizens residing in the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as detained for having violated the rules of registration in that territory for certain reasons and assist Azerbaijani immigrants within his 106