A/HRC/13/21 6/32), the Representative deepened his engagement with the Peacebuilding Commission. Together with UNHCR, he conducted a lessons-learned meeting in 2008 on addressing internal displacement in peacebuilding. Further, he contributed to the peacebuilding strategy for the Central African Republic and intends to extend his cooperation to the peacebuilding strategy for Burundi. The Representative is pleased to report that the guide on internal displacement and peace processes for mediators, which he developed in cooperation with the Mediation Support Unit of the Department for Political Affairs and humanitarian, human rights and mediation experts, is ready for publication.9 22. Outside the United Nations system, the Representative has attached great importance to working with regional, subregional and other international organizations. During the course of last year, the Representative addressed the 120th Assembly Meeting of the InterParliamentary Union in Addis Ababa on 9 April 2009 and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on 24 June 2009 (A/64/214, paras. 74–75). From 9 to 10 July 2009, the Executive Secretariat of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, together with the Representative, OCHA, OHCHR, IDMC and the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, conducted a workshop in Nairobi on the implementation of the Protocol on the Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (A/64/214, paras. 76–79). On 22 October 2009, the Representative addressed the African Union historic Special Summit of Heads of State and Government on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons, which adopted the Kampala Convention. C. Country engagement10 23. In accordance with his mandate, the Representative has consistently sought to engage with States on the basis of a constructive, transparent and sustained dialogue, encouraging rights-based and pragmatic solutions to concerns identified, while acknowledging good practices and progress made. 24. The Representative notes with appreciation that the vast majority of States have heeded the call of the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly to respond favourably to his requests for visits and information. During the course of his tenure, he has been able to carry out, up to the end of 2009, a total of 16 missions and 26 follow-up and working visits to the following member States: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chad, the Central African Republic, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Honduras, Israel, Kenya, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Serbia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, TimorLeste, Turkey, Uganda and the United States of America. He would like to undertake one more mission before the end of his tenure and carry out shorter visits to Burundi, Chad, the Central African Republic and Turkey. The Representative thanks the member States that readily agreed to receive or, in several cases, even took the initiative to invite him, in particular for follow-up visits. 25. The Representative regrets that, due to the security situation or time constraints on his side he was unable to visit several countries facing serious displacement challenges. He regrets that, in August 2009, the Philippines declined to issue an invitation, referencing “the current peace and order situation in Mindanao and other equally important priorities of the 9 10 GE.10-10161 Integrating Internal Displacement in Peace Processes and Agreements: A Guide for Mediators, The Peacemaker’s Toolkit Series, United States Institute for Peace and Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Washington, DC, 2010. On the mission to Chad, carried out in February 2009 and already discussed during the Representative’s previous interactive dialogue with the Council, see Add.5. 7