A/HRC/34/34 A. 1. Coordination Committee Election of the Coordination Committee for 2016-2017 55. At the meeting, the members of the Coordination Committee for 2016-2017 were elected. The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, was elected Chair of the Coordination Committee. The Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Dainius Pūras, was elected Rapporteur of the annual meeting and member of the Coordination Committee. The other members elected were the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Catalina Devandas-Aguilar; the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky; and the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio. The outgoing Chair of the Coordination Committee, Michael K. Addo, member of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, will remain as ex officio member for the coming year. 2. Reflection and strategies for the Coordination Committee for 2016-2017 56. In addition to continuing work on strengthening the relationship between special procedures and New York-based entities, enhancing strategies for preventing and responding to acts of intimidation and reprisal against those cooperating with special procedures, as well as to ad hominem attacks against mandate holders, throughout discussions held during the annual meeting, the mandate holders highlighted a number of additional focus areas for the Coordination Committee to reflect on in 2016-2017. These included procedures for election of the Chair of the Coordination Committee, participation in the annual meeting, outcomes of the communications review procedure and developments relating to human rights mainstreaming within the United Nations, continuing dialogue with senior United Nations officials, including the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and following closely issues relating to cooperation with special procedures and to their independence. B. 1. Thematic issues and working methods Communications 57. As an outcome of the twenty-second annual meeting, the Coordination Committee appointed, in 2015, one of its members as focal point to take the lead in reviewing the communications procedure, and prepared a paper for discussion at the meeting. The paper, introduced by Rita Iszák-Ndiaye, provided mandate holders with the basis for discussions held on the procedure, including the selection of cases, confidentiality rules, communication with sources, low response rates and how to improve them, the need for follow-up and the question of joint or individual action in the event of time constraints. Participants in the meeting decided to task the next Coordination Committee to follow up on these discussions. 58. The mandate holders also received an update on developments with regard to the recent launch of an online questionnaire for the submission of information to special procedures and the introduction of a new communications database that will, in turn, feed into an external and searchable database. The purpose of the developments is to facilitate the processing of communications, to increase efficiency and to broaden the possibilities for sources to submit information. Mandate holders provided positive feedback while also 11