General Report of the CPT, 2011-2012 that the CPT and the Commissioner build on each other’s work in areas covered by the Committee’s mandate. Similarly, it is important for the CPT and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to sustain an ongoing dialogue, in view of the multiple points of contact between their respective mandates. In December 2011, the CPT’s President had a broad-ranging exchange of views with the President of the ICRC, Mr Jakob Kellenberger, and this was followed by detailed discussions in May 2012 between the Heads of Division in the CPT’s secretariat and senior ICRC officials. 24. During the period covered by this General Report, CPT members have taken part in numerous activities organised within the framework of the Council of Europe. Specific mention might be made of the participation of the CPT’s President at the Conference on the Prevention of Human Rights Violations held in Kyiv in September 2011, the participation of the 2nd Vice-President at the 16th Conference of Directors of Prison Administration held in Strasbourg in October 2011, and the regular attendance of CPT representatives at activities organised by the European NPM Project (see also paragraph 36 below). 25. Outside of the Council of Europe, the CPT has participated in various events organised within the framework of the European Union, the United Nations and the World Health Organisation. For example, the CPT’s President addressed the Conference “Dignity and rights of irregular migrants” organised by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in Warsaw in November 2011, and had an exchange of views with the COSCE Working Party of the Council of the European Union in Brussels on 20 April 2012. Reference should also be made to the CPT’s active participation at the Regional Consultation for Europe on prevention of torture, organised in Geneva in December 2011 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and aimed at reinforcing cooperation between the UN and regional human rights mechanisms. In addition, the CPT has been represented at a number of major events organised by non-governmental organisations, such as the Global Forum on the OPCAT “Preventing Torture, Upholding Dignity: from Pledges to Actions”, organised in Geneva in November 2011 by the Association for the Prevention of Torture. 26. In its 21st General Report, the CPT referred to Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 1968 (2011) on “Strengthening torture prevention mechanisms in Europe”, in which the Assembly made a number of proposals concerning the Committee. The CPT is grateful to the Committee of Ministers for having given it the possibility to make comments on those proposals. The reply to the Recommendation subsequently adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 15 February 2012 corresponds very much to the CPT’s views (see also paragraph 88 below).2 2. The texts of Recommendation 1968 (2011) and of the Committee of Ministers’ reply are reproduced in Appendix 8. 12