A/HRC/7/2 page 91 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 0 General allegation Prompt intervention letter Working Group request for a visit Multiple replies on some cases N/A N/A N/A N/A Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6-month rule) N/A Government response Government response Government response N/A N/A N/A 420. There was no activity during the period under review. A summary of the situation in the country appears in the 2005 report (E/CN.4/2006/56). IV. AREAS OF CONCERN, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 421. In 2007, the Working Group transmitted 629 newly reported cases of disappearance to 29 Governments, 84 of which allegedly occurred during 2007. The Working Group used the urgent action procedure for 65 of these cases, which allegedly occurred within the three months preceding the receipt of the report by the Working Group. During the reporting period, the Working Group was able to clarify 224 cases of disappearance. The Working Group discontinued 6 cases. The Working Group is grateful for the cooperation received from a number of Governments. Nevertheless, it remains concerned that, of the 78 States with outstanding cases, some Governments (Burundi, Guinea, Israel, Mozambique, Namibia and Seychelles, as well as the Palestinian Authority), have never replied to the Working Group’s communications. Some Governments provide responses that do not contain relevant information. The Working Group urges those Governments to fulfil their obligations under the Declaration, the resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and its successor, the Human Rights Council. The cooperation of Governments is indispensable to discovering the fate or whereabouts of disappeared persons around the globe. 422. The Working Group is still very concerned about the phenomenon of underreporting. The Working Group considers that cases of disappearances are happening in certain parts of the world, without being reported to the Working Group. This is owing to a variety of reasons, including that in a number of countries, particularly in those which have been through internal armed conflict, national institutions, including the judicial system, as well as security forces have collapsed. The underreporting phenomenon may also be due to conditions of poverty, lack of effective civil society organizations and activities, policies limiting the activities of NGOs, harassment of human rights defenders, prosecutors and judges, families and victims of disappearances. The Working Group strongly urges States to establish solid legal frameworks that guarantee NGOs to undertake their work freely. 423. In various cases, countries that have gone through or are going through a difficult situation of internal disorder or with high rates of criminality, sometimes use the armed forces to undertake police activities, under the excuse that the police forces are incapable of coping with the maintenance of public order. The Working Group is convinced that the duties of the armed forces are different from those of the police force. In a large number of cases of reported disappearances worldwide, the armed forces themselves are reported to be responsible for the disappearances.