A/HRC/25/26 information on the implementation of its recommendations identified in paragraphs 9, 12, 13 and 22 of its concluding observations.51 The Secretary-General encourages the Government to promptly provide the information requested by the Committee and to engage in constructive dialogue with the treaty bodies as a critical mechanism to review and improve human rights in the country. B. Cooperation with special procedures of the Human Rights Council 37. At a press conference on 2 December 2013, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reiterated the importance of the Islamic Republic of Iran inviting the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran for a country visit. The Secretary-General has echoed this call on several occasions. Since his appointment in 2011, the Special Rapporteur has made several official requests to the Iranian authorities for a country visit but has not received an affirmative response to date. In a letter to President Rouhani, in July 2013, the Special Rapporteur expressed hopes for a positive engagement on the part of the Government, including by allowing him to visit the country. The Special Rapporteur met with the Permanent Missions of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in Geneva and in New York to discuss future prospects for engagement. 38. The Secretary-General regrets that since 2005, no thematic mandate holders have been invited to visit the Islamic Republic of Iran, despite a standing invitation issued to all thematic mandate holders in 2002, and a pledge to invite two such experts in 2012. He expresses the hope that the Government will consider scheduling visits to which it has agreed in principle, for the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. Despite having agreed to a visit by the Working Group in 2004, which was delayed at the request of the Government, the Government has ignored five annual reminder letters requesting the rescheduling of the visit: in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. As of early 2014, the Government had yet to set a date for the visit. 39. The Secretary-General is concerned about the low rate of replies to the large number of communications sent to the Government by numerous mandate holders. Out of 25 communications sent in 2013, the authorities had responded to four. The majority of the communications addressed concerns about torture, executions, arbitrary arrest and detention of journalists and human rights activists, harassment of family members of activists, prosecution of religious minorities, unfair trials and ill-treatment of prisoners, and denial of medical treatment. C. Cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 40. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights continued to raise human rights concerns with Iranian officials, including in meetings with the Minister for 51 14 In its concluding observations, the Human Rights Committee requested the Islamic Republic of Iran to provide within one year further information on the specific areas of concern including inequality of women with regard to marriage, family and inheritance; the death penalty including executions of minors; and the independence of judges. Since then, the Committee has sent reminders to the Government in May and December 2013, but has not received any positive response. See http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CCPR/Shared%20Documents/IRN/INT_CCPR_FUL_IRN_15884 _E.pdf.