difficulties that might arise, it is worthwhile to arrange meetings of inmates with other inmates that are their close relatives. With regard to meetings, it should also be mentioned that it is deemed more appropriate for both inmates and persons visiting them to eliminate the practice of determination of the time of meetings through dividing the number of meetings of the same type granted to an inmate within a year by twelve months44. Besides, in accordance with the legislation in force, persons sentenced to imprisonment for a certain period and persons sentenced to life imprisonment are entitled to talk on phone for fifteen minutes twice a week and once a week respectively45. However, the IDR stipulates that an inmate can talk only to one telephone subscriber within the specified period46, which deprives inmates of the opportunity to talk, within the specified period, to people residing at different addresses. The elimination of the given restriction is deemed reasonable. The Commissioner has appealed to the MJ with regard to the above mentioned and currently the given proposals are being reviewed. In 2012, along with thoroughly responding to numerous inquiries about the Commissioner’s activity as the NPM as received from various sources, relevant reference on the NPM was prepared as a contribution to the second periodic report of the Republic of Azerbaijan under the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review mechanism and sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The output of the legal analysis work conducted by the NPM has been the analysis of the organizational status and practical results of the activities undertaken to prevent torture, summarization of the results obtained as a consequence of performed activities, relevant statistics, and the present Report including pertinent proposals and recommendations. 44 IDR, clause 35.3 EPC, Article 84.1; IDR, clause 33.1 46 IDR, clause 33.1 45 39