-813. Reference should also be made in this context to Recommendation 1183 (1992), adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 5 May 1992, in which it was recommended inter alia that the Committee of Ministers "enable European States which are members of the CSCE but not of the Council of Europe ........ to invite the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment to visit places of detention in these countries". This recommendation was designed precisely to take into account that the entry into force of the then draft Protocol No. 1 opening the Convention to accession by non-member States could take several years. The CPT has already had occasion to make clear that it welcomes the Assembly's initiative, subject to the qualification that the additional resources required by any such extra-conventional activities in non-member States would have to be clearly identified in advance and made available (cf. the 3rd General Report; CPT/Inf (93) 12, paragraph 81). The CPT notes with interest that in its reply to the Assembly's recommendation, adopted in January 1994, the Committee of Ministers stated that it had "decided to adopt on this matter an open and pragmatic approach". b. CPT membership and the Bureau 14. Significant changes to the CPT's membership occurred in 1993, partly as a result of the expiry of the terms of office of many members but also due to several members leaving the Committee prematurely. In all, seven members left the Committee: Mr Jacques Bernheim, the 2nd Vice-President, elected in respect of Switzerland, Mr Antonio Cassese, the President (Italy), Mrs Lydie Dupuy (France), Ms Astrid Heiberg (Norway), Mr Michael Mellett (Ireland), Mr José Maria Mohedano (Spain) and Mr Ergun Özbudun (Turkey). The CPT would like to thank them for their contributions to the Committee's work. 15. Six new members of the CPT were elected by the Committee of Ministers during 1993: Mr Nicolò Amato, in respect of Italy, Mrs Ingrid Lycke Ellingsen (Norway), Mrs Gisela Perren-Klingler (Switzerland), Mr Safa Reiso_lu (Turkey), Mr Léopoldo Torres Boursault (Spain) and Mr Ivan Zakine (France). In addition, the following six members were re-elected for a second term of office: Mrs Nadia Gevers Leuven-Lachinsky (Netherlands), Mr Love Kellberg (Sweden), Mr Rudolf Machacek (Austria), Mr Claude Nicolay (Luxembourg), Mr Bent Sørensen (Denmark) and Mr Stefan Terlezki (United Kingdom)6. Consequently, the CPT presently has 21 members, the seats in respect of Bulgaria7, Hungary, Ireland, San Marino, Slovakia7 and Slovenia being vacant (see Appendix 2 A for the full list of members). 6 Further, on 23 June 1994, Messrs Tonio Borg (Malta) and Günther Kaiser (Germany) were reelected for a second term of office. 7 As from 1 September 1994.