A/HRC/16/48 17. On 5 November 2010, all members of the Working Group participated in a commemorative event on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Working Group mandated by Human Rights Council resolution 14/10. Twelve experts on enforced disappearances, together with representatives of Member States, national human rights institutions, civil society and relatives of disappeared persons participated in the event1. B. Meetings 18. During the period under review, representatives of the Governments of Angola, Chad, Iraq, Japan, Morocco, Nepal, Rwanda and Sri Lanka attended the sessions of the Working Group. A number of other bilateral meetings were held with various States during the year. The Working Group also met with the Committee against Torture, representatives of international governmental organizations, human rights non-governmental organizations and associations of relatives of disappeared persons and families of victims of enforced disappearances or witnesses thereto. C. Communications 19. During the reporting period, the Working Group transmitted 105 new cases of enforced disappearance to 22 Governments. 20. The Working Group transmitted 50 of these cases under the urgent action procedure to the Governments of Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Iraq, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mexico, the Kingdom of Morocco, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand and Yemen. Of the newly reported cases, three allegedly occurred during the reporting period and relate to the United Arab Emirates. 21. During the same period, the Working Group clarified 70 cases in the following States: Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, India, Iraq, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the Kingdom of Morocco, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Uruguay and Yemen. Of those, 23 cases were clarified based on information provided by the Government and 47 cases were clarified based on information provided by sources. 22. During the reporting period, the Working Group transmitted seven prompt intervention communications addressing harassment of, and threats to, human rights defenders and relatives of disappeared persons in Algeria, Colombia, India, Mexico and Turkey. Six of these were sent as joint communications with other special procedures mechanisms. 23. The Working Group sent 13 urgent appeals concerning persons who had been arrested, detained, abducted or otherwise deprived of their liberty or who had been forcibly disappeared or were at risk of being disappeared in Bahrain, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Uzbekistan and the Palestinian Authority. All these communications were sent jointly with other special procedures mechanisms. 24. Following its eighty-ninth session in 2009 and its first two sessions in 2010, the Working Group sent two general allegations to the Governments of China and Nepal 1 8 Further information available at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/disappear/commemoration30WGEID.htm