E/CN.4/2004/56/Add.3 page 48 prisoners serving sentences for crimes against the constitutional order and public safety (M. Begzhanov, I. Khudaiberdiev, A. Rakhmonov and others). In May 2003 penal institution No. 64/1 in Zangiata district, Tashkent oblast, was visited by a group of delegates from the European Union-Uzbekistan Cooperation Council. In October 2003 a second visit was made to penal institution No. 64/71 in Jaslyk, in which the Ambassador of Italy, the Ambassador of Germany, the British chargé d’affaires, the counsellor of the Embassy of the Netherlands and the French and German attachés took part. Moreover, in the course of the year, representatives from the Embassy of the Russian Federation have made several visits to various penal institutions in order to meet convicted Russian citizens serving sentences in Uzbek jails. Likewise, representatives from the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran pay similar visits to Iranian citizens in penal institution No. 64/21 at Bekabad. Pursuant to specific requests by the Embassy of the United States of America, its representatives visited penal institutions No. 64/46 in Navoi, No. 64/33 in Karshi, No. 64/7 in Tashkent and No. 64/TVK in Tashkent. 294. In 2002, representatives of the Almaty regional office of the London-based NGO Penal Reform International (PRI) visited penitentiary establishments in Tashkent city. In December 2002, in collaboration with PRI a two-day international conference entitled “The legal status and medical treatment of convicts: the international standards and practice” was held in Tashkent with the participation of international experts. In the course of preparing for and organizing meetings of the prison health-care coordinating council, staff from the PRI head office and its regional office visited penal institution No. 64/1 in Zangiata district, Tashkent oblast, among other facilities. 295. In the near future, in cooperation with NGO Médicins sans frontières (MSF), an introductory lecture-seminar is scheduled on the Directly Observed Therapy-Short Course (DOTS) methodology for doctors, lab workers and therapists of the national hospital for convicts in Tashkent. MSF is also planning to donate educational modules on this issue. 296. In 2003, the Kondrad Adenauer Foundation, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Human Rights Commissioner (Ombudsman) of the Oliy Majlis and the Uzbek National Centre for Human Rights, held two international seminars on monitoring human rights and issues of social adaptation and rehabilitation of juvenile convicts, focusing on penal institution No. 64/46 in Navoi and penal institution No. 64/ZVK in Zangiata district, Tashkent oblast. During these regional human rights seminars, representatives of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation also visited penal institution No. 64/71 in Jaslyk, penal institution No. 64/73 in Zafarabad district, Djizak oblast, and penal institution No. 64/3 in Bostanlyk district, Tashkent oblast. In December 2003 they planned to visit penal institution No. 64/IZ-8 in Termez during a regional seminal in Surkhan-Darya oblast. 297. As part of a special pilot project to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among incarcerated drug addicts, penal institution No. 64/6 in Chirchik was visited by representatives of the Open Society Institute-Assistance Foundation Uzbekistan (Soros Foundation), which runs a training programme for female prisoners (e.g. computer literacy, macramé, hairdressing and sewing). Penal institution No. 64/7 in Tashkent was visited by representatives of Counterpark.