At the conference the NPM model to be applied in the Republic of Azerbaijan was discussed and assumptions and recommendations were voiced as well. During the exchanges of views held at the conference Commissioner E.Suleymanova, as well as the members of the NPM Group and international and national experts answered numerous questions of the participants. At the end of the conference A.Huseynov, Chair of the Legal Policy and State Building Committee of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan, underlined that, taking into consideration the Commissioner’s proposals, certain actions would be taken to improve the laws relating to the NPM functioning. Another contribution of the collaboration among the Commissioner’s institution, OSCE Office in Baku and OSCE-ODIHR was the organization of a four-day training-seminar aimed at increasing theoretical and practical knowledge of the members of the Commissioner’s institution, particularly the NPM Group established under her, with the participation of L.Adler, experienced expert of OSCE-ODIHR in October 2010. At the training-seminar the Commissioner’s NPM activities were discussed, views were mutually exchanged by the current situation being analyzed, and proposals and recommendations were provided. Within the event, necessary conditions were created for the above mentioned expert to scrutinize the documentation, database and other materials maintained by the NPM Group in order to allow him to get acquainted with the NPM’s work more closely. L.Adler also took part in visits conducted by the members of the NPM Group to PI No.6 of the PS and Narimanov DPO TDP. At the end of the event L.Adler highly appreciating Azerbaijani Ombudsman’s work as the NPM, noted that the operation of the NPM Group had been organized in a comprehensive manner and in line with international norms and assessed it as an example of high professionalism. The analysis and summarization of the outcomes of the legal education work on combating torture allows to say that the participation of parliamentarians and the employees of law-enforcement bodies in various legal education events of the Commissioner, and particularly the organization of such events together with the relevant governmental bodies at a high level 98

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