A/HRC/41/36/Add.1 Of all communications sent, 48 were urgent appeals, 74 were allegation letters and 9 were other letters. 11. In the present report, the Special Rapporteur offers her observations on the communications sent and the replies received during the reporting period as well as patterns observed. These observations are based on two tables detailing the correspondence sent and received during the period under review: Tabulation (A) in section III of the present report details cases transmitted and replies received to communications sent during the reporting period, and Tabulation (B) in section IV of the report details cases transmitted to States concerning alleged violations of death penalty safeguards B. Observations on all cases (Tabulation A) 1. Numbers of communications sent and replies received 12. The communications report of special procedures provides basic statistics with respect to the responsiveness of States overall to different mandates.2 With respect to this mandate, the Special Rapporteur received responses to 58 out of 131 communications sent within the reporting period. She thanks all Governments who have replied to her communications for their cooperation. Seventy-three of the communications are yet to be responded to. In the same period, the Special Rapporteur also received replies to 6 previous communications, i.e. sent prior to the reporting period, for which she is grateful. This means the overall timely response rate for communications sent by this mandate is approximately 44 per cent. This rate is significantly lower than the response rate for the previous year which stood at 61 per cent. 13. During the reporting period, half of States replied to one or more of the communications addressed to them (33 out of 65). The Special Rapporteur would like to thank all States who have responded substantively and in a timely manner to all or some of the communications sent. The assessment of individual cases in which the Special Rapporteur has intervened is an essential part of her work. Government responses allow for a greater understanding of the cases, policies, and circumstances. The Governments of Algeria, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Iraq, Japan, Malta, Slovakia, Spain, the Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Viet Nam and Zimbabwe replied substantively (addressing all or some of the questions raised) and within the required deadline to all the communications addressed to them during the reporting period. 14. A number of States replied substantively to some of the communications sent to them. They include Brazil, Cameroon, Egypt, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Israel, Myanmar, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates. Some States did not submit a timely reply to any of the communications transmitted to them, or have submitted merely an acknowledgement of receipt, including Afghanistan, Armenia, Bangladesh, the Central African Republic, the Congo, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Italy, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, the Syrian Arab Republic, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, the United States of America and Yemen. The responses from some of these States have arrived after the required deadline and for that reason fall outside the reporting period of the present report. 15. In its resolution 35/15, the Human Rights Council urged States “[t]o cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur in the performance of his or her tasks, to supply all necessary information requested by him or her and to react appropriately and expeditiously to his or her urgent appeals, and those Governments that have not yet responded to communications transmitted to them by the Special Rapporteur to do so without further delay”. Therefore, the Special Rapporteur reiterates her appeal to all Governments to respond substantively to communications in a timely manner so as to assist and cooperate with her 2 The communications reports of special procedures can be found here: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/CommunicationsreportsSP.aspx. 5