A/HRC/10/31 page 14 partners to assess human rights integration into regional and national-level policies, with a view to identifying key gaps and possible legal and policy responses to align the Millennium Development Goals with human rights. IV. STRENGTHENED COUNTRY ENGAGEMENT 55. OHCHR has continued to focus on strengthening human rights promotion and protection at the country level by means of the various tools at its disposal, including support for human rights mechanisms, dialogue with national counterparts, continued partnerships within the United Nations system and with regional organizations, and through field presences. 56. As at January 2009, OHCHR is running and supporting 51 field presences: 10 regional presences, 2 10 offices at the country level, 3 16 human rights components in United Nations peace missions, 4 and 15 human rights advisers in United Nations country teams. 5 With regard to field presences, a most welcome development was the signature, in December 2008, of a memorandum of understanding between the Government of Qatar and OHCHR for the establishment of a human rights training and documentation centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region, requested by the General Assembly in its resolution 60/153. I am also grateful for the renewal, in August 2008, by the Government of Guatemala, of the memorandum of understanding governing the OHCHR country office, and for the Government of Panama’s intention to extend the agreement on the Regional Office based in Panama City. OHCHR has conducted consultations for the establishment of a regional office for Europe, to be based in Brussels, and is undertaking preparations to this end. I look forward to successful discussions concerning the conclusion of renewed agreements for OHCHR country offices in Cambodia and Uganda and for the renewal of the OHCHR office in Nepal. Negotiations have been ongoing to identify a host country for the establishment of a regional office for South-West Asia as well as for the Middle East and North Africa. I am hopeful of concluding these processes in 2009. 57. Since 2006, the activities of the OHCHR rapid response unit has been at the core of efforts to react promptly, systematically and effectively to deteriorating or potentially 2 Regional presences included the OHCHR Regional Offices for Southern Africa (Pretoria), East Africa (Addis Ababa), West Africa (Dakar), Southeast Asia (Bangkok), the Pacific (Suva), the Middle East (Beirut), Central Asia (Bishkek), Latin America and the Caribbean (Panama City); the OHCHR Liaison Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (Santiago) and the Central Africa Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (Yaoundé). In 2009, the Regional Office for Latin America will be fully reinstated, while the Regional Office in Panama will cover Central America, in accordance with the agreement between the Government of Panama and OHCHR. 3 OHCHR presences at the country level included offices in Bolivia, Cambodia, Colombia, Guatemala, Kosovo, Mexico, Nepal, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Togo and Uganda. 4 OHCHR supported the human rights components of the United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi, the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in the Central African Republic, the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad, the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Mission in the Sudan, the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, the United Nations Mission in Liberia, the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone, the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire, the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau, the United Nations Office for West Africa, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia and the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 5 Human rights advisers were posted to Ecuador, Guinea, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, the Niger, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, Serbia, the southern Caucasus, Sri Lanka and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.