A/63/175 19. On 14 March, the Special Rapporteur held consultations with the Director and staff of the Division of International Protection Services of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Matters of mutual interest were discussed as well as ways and means to strengthen cooperation. 20. On 27 March, the Special Rapporteur held a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Justice of Austria in Vienna on the use of tasers. 21. On 3 April, the Special Rapporteur participated in a meeting organized by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights on the “Agenda for Human Rights”, an initiative of the Government of Switzerland to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 22. On 14 and 15 April, at the Dead Sea in Jordan, the Special Rapporteur delivered the keynote presentation and participated in the regional training programme on human rights for the Middle East and North Africa region, organized by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and Adalah, a local NGO. 23. On 17 April, at a meeting organized by Amnesty International in Mannheim, Germany, the Special Rapporteur delivered a presentation on “Torture and terrorism. Current challenges to the prohibition of torture in the fight against terrorism”. 24. On 18 April, in Strasbourg, France, the Special Rapporteur held discussions with the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) on matters of mutual interest as well as on ways and means to strengthen cooperation. 25. On 23 and 24 April, as a follow-up to his predecessor’s study on the situation of trade in and production of equipment which is specifically designed to inflict torture (see E/CN.4/2005/62), the Special Rapporteur participated in an international expert meeting to review and further develop national, regional and international controls on the transfer of security equipment used for torture. The meeting was organized by Amnesty International and the Omega Foundation in London. 26. On 30 April, the Special Rapporteur conducted a seminar at the Vienna Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, entitled “The international struggle against torture”. 27. On 19 and 20 May, the Special Rapporteur participated in a workshop organized by the Council of Europe and the European Union in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, on “Complaints against the police”. 28. On 2 and 3 June, the Special Rapporteur held meetings with representatives of the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Special Court for Sierra Leone at The Hague. 29. On 6 June, at the American University in Washington, D.C., he led a panel discussion on “The future of United Nations special procedures”. On 9 June, he gave a speech on “How to Incorporate United Nations special procedures in a human rights strategy” also at the American University. On 10 June, at the Washington Convention Center, he participated in a panel discussion organized by the American Civil Liberties Union on “Linking the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to United States’ civil liberties”. 08-44075 7