A/HRC/16/48 Urgent Appeal N/A Government response N/A General allegation N/A Government response N/A Prompt intervention letter N/A Government response N/A Working Group request for a visit N/A Government response N/A Observations 163. The Working Group regrets that no response was received from the Government to its general allegation sent on 15 May 2009, concerning the alleged involvement in a practice of renditions and secret detention (A/HRC/13/31). 164. The Working Group notes that the Government has signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and calls upon the Government to ratify it and accept the competence of the Committee under articles 31 and 32. Dominican Republic Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review: 0 Cases clarified during the period under review: 0 Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review Cases sent under the urgent action procedure Cases sent under the standard procedure Government 2 0 0 0 Nongovernmental sources 0 Discontinued cases Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 1 1 Number of cases on which the Government has replied Multiple replies on some cases Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6-month rule) 2 0 No Urgent appeal N/A Government response N/A General allegation N/A Government response N/A Prompt intervention letter N/A Government response N/A Working Group request for a visit N/A Government response N/A Communications from the Government 165. The Government transmitted one communication to the Working Group, dated 10 May 2010, on both outstanding cases that was considered insufficient to clarify them. On one, the Government noted that it is being considered by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and therefore requested the Working Group to abstain from considering it. 43