As that statement made clear, the EU will be watching closely developments in Algeria to ensure that there is progress. It will consider its position carefully at the UN General Assembly and the 1999 UN Commission on Human Rights if there has been no progress. We shall continue to raise this with the Algerians. There is a way for special rapporteurs to compile reports without visiting the countries. Perhaps that is the point to which the noble Lord refers.
Special rapporteurs can draw on that information.
But direct information is more valuable than second-hand reports.