General Report of the CPT, 2011-2012 14. On 30 August 2011, CPT representatives held talks in Moscow on the Committee’s findings during its ad hoc visit in April/May 2011 to the North Caucasian region. The talks related in particular to the activities of law enforcement agencies and investigations into possible ill-treatment by members of those agencies. Separate meetings were held with the Minister of the Interior of the Russian Federation, Rashid Nurgaliyev, and the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin. Shortly afterwards, on 2 September, talks were held in Yessentuki with Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasian Federal District. 15. Further high-level talks were held with the Russian authorities on 21 May and on 4 and 5 June 2012. In addition to the follow-up to the CPT’s findings during its 2011 visit to the North Caucasus, the discussions related to broader issues of cooperation between the Committee and the Russian authorities as well as the publication of CPT reports. The CPT’s representatives met Mr Bastrykin once again on 21 May in Moscow, and this was followed by a meeting in the capital on 4 June with the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Alexandr Gorovoy. On 5 June, in Saint Petersburg, the representatives had talks with the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, Alexandr Konovalov. 16. On 10 February 2012, CPT representatives had talks in Strasbourg with senior Turkish officials about the situation of Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners held at Imralı F-type High-Security Closed Prison, particular attention being paid to the possibility in practice for these persons to receive visits from their relatives and lawyers. Further discussions on this subject took place in Ankara on the occasion of the Committee’s ad hoc visit to Turkey in June 2012. Plenary meetings and activities of subgroups 17. The CPT held three one-week plenary meetings during the twelve months covered by this General Report, in November 2011 and in March and July 2012. A total of 18 visit reports were adopted by the Committee at these meetings, nine of them drawn up under the expedited drafting procedure (according to which draft visit reports prepared by visiting delegations that are circulated at least two weeks before a plenary meeting are taken as approved without debate, save for paragraphs in respect of which a discussion has been specifically requested in advance). 18. At its November 2011 plenary meeting, the CPT had an exchange of views with judges of the European Court of Human Rights, including the Court’s President, Sir Nicolas Bratza. The exchange of views focussed on two topics, namely access to a lawyer during police custody and the provision of health care to prisoners (including application of the principle of “equivalence of care”). 10