A/HRC/27/56 on Human Rights and Democracy. In December 2013, he delivered an opening statement at the 15th EU-NGO Forum on Human Rights, and met with several European Union officials, including the Special Representative for Human Rights. 9. In October 2013, he gave a keynote speech via video link to the Second International Conference on Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe. 10. At the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly, at which the Special Rapporteur presented his report on the interrelationship of transitional justice and development (A/68/345), he was a panellist in side events on “Teaching history in divided societies” and “Transitional justice and development: new agenda, concepts and possibilities”. 11. In October/November 2013, the Special Rapporteur gave presentations on the relationship between the rule of law and transitional justice at the meeting of the Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, and on “Truth without facts: on the erosion of the fact-finding function of truth commissions” at a conference, held in New York, entitled “International human rights fact-finding in the twenty-first century”. During that period, he also contributed to the session on “Peace agreements and truth commissions” at the high-level symposium on “Challenging the conventional: can truth commissions effectively strengthen peace processes?” 12. Prior to the regional consultations for Africa, the Special Rapporteur held discussions with the authorities of Uganda, including the State Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs and the State Minister for Foreign Affairs (International Affairs) 13. In December 2013, he gave a keynote speech at a seminar on the post-2015 global development agenda, organized by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. 14. In May 2014, the Special Rapporteur convened an expert meeting with prosecutors on the issue of prosecutorial strategies in the aftermath of atrocities, hosted by Sweden. In June, he took part in an NGO-expert round table on the same topic in Geneva. 15. Following the regional consultations for Europe and North America, the Special Rapporteur had the honour to meet with the Federal President of Germany and several representatives of the German Foreign Office, including the Director General for the United Nations and Global Issues, and the Head of the Human Rights Division. 16. In June 2014, the Special Rapporteur gave a keynote speech at the inauguration of the Truth and Dignity Commission of Tunisia. He had the pleasure to hold meetings with the Commission, government representatives and NGOs. 17. Also in June, the Special Rapporteur gave a briefing to Member States in Geneva, and met with representatives of Argentina, Germany, Guatemala, Nepal, Spain, Switzerland and Uruguay, and several NGOs. III. Prosecutions as part of a comprehensive transitional justice policy 18. In his first report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/21/46), the Special Rapporteur emphasized the importance of implementing the measures under his mandate — truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence — as elements of a comprehensive policy. On the basis of practical experience, he argued in the report that the measures work best when designed and implemented in relation to one another. Rather than being alternatives among which States can pick and choose, those measures are parts of a whole, each with corresponding legal obligations attached. Individually insufficient, but 4