CAT/C/52/2 Britain and Northern Ireland in order to learn more about its work and exchange information and experiences. At its twenty-first session, the Subcommittee met with the NPM of Kyrgyzstan. The Subcommittee is also pleased to have received the annual reports of 32 NPMs during 2013. They have been posted on the Subcommittee website and reviewed by the regional teams. 27. The Subcommittee and its members have continued to receive invitations to attend numerous national, regional and international meetings on the designation, establishment and development of NPMs in particular and on the Optional Protocol in general. Those events have included: (a) In January 2013, initial conversations about the work of the United Kingdom NPM and informal visits to a place of detention in London chosen by the United Kingdom NPM, in parallel with an Optional Protocol-related event organized by the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Human Rights Implementation Centre at the University of Bristol; (b) In February 2013, a meeting organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Astana with the Kyrgyz Ombudsman, the Chair and members of the parliamentary committee responsible for the law on the NPM, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Executive Office and the Minister for Human Rights in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss the proposed legislation providing for the NPM; (c) In February 2013, a workshop in Algiers on torture prevention, organized by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT); (d) In March 2013, a workshop in Manila on guidelines on health-care assessment in detention centres, organized by the Medical Action Group; (e) In March 2013, a meeting in Belgrade with the NPMs of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to discuss the establishment of a Balkan NPM network, organized by the NPM of Serbia; (f) In April 2013, a meeting in Quito on NPMs and the prevention of torture, organized by APT and the Office of the Ombudsman of Ecuador; (g) In May 2013, a training course in Manila on NPMs, organized by APT; (h) In May 2013, a workshop in Nouakchott on NPMs, organized by APT; (i) In July 2013, a meeting in Santiago on NPMs, organized by the Human Rights Centre at the University of Chile; (j) In September 2013, a round table in Manila with the Philippines Optional Protocol Working Group; (k) In September 2013, a meeting in Helsinki with the Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland; (l) In October 2013, a meeting in Bucharest on an NPM with the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee of Romania; (m) In October 2013, a seminar on torture prevention, organized in Asunción by OHCHR, the NPM of Paraguay and APT; (n) In November 2013, the Second Jakarta Human Rights Dialogue on Prevention of Torture in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Region, organized by the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights; 7