A/HRC/36/39 from Enforced Disappearance, no State shall practise, permit or tolerate enforced disappearances. Mexico 91. The Working Group welcomes the recent approval by the Senate of a general law on enforced disappearances. It urges the Government to redouble its efforts to finalize its approval as soon as possible, while noting at the same time that the bill has some gaps, including in relation to the proposed system of search. Myanmar 92. The Working Group is concerned about the consistent and reliable reports of grave and systematic human rights violations in Rakhine State, including enforced disappearances. It emphasizes that, as provided in article 2 of the Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, no State shall practise, permit or tolerate enforced disappearances and that, according to article 7 of the Declaration, no circumstances whatsoever may be invoked to justify enforced disappearances. 93. In that respect, the Working Group notes with concern the general allegation transmitted on 9 June 2017, related to allegations of enforced disappearances following security operations in northern Rakhine State (see A/HRC/WGEID/112/1, paras. 72-73, and annex II) and requests that a reply be provided soon. Nepal 94. The Working Group was pleased to learn about the renewal, on 8 February 2017, of the mandate of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons. It regrets, however, that the extension is for just one additional year. The Working Group calls upon the Government of Nepal to extend those mandates further, in order to guarantee the effective planning and functioning of the Commissions and to ensure significant progress on crucial aspects of their mandates, such as truth-telling initiatives, the study of the nature and patterns of the serious human rights violations, including enforced disappearances, the identification of perpetrators and the recommendations on reparations to victims and on institutional reform. 95. The Working Group is also aware that in 2015 the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons drafted a bill criminalizing enforced disappearances. That piece of legislation has not, however, been tabled in Parliament yet. The Working Group urges the Government of Nepal to accelerate the process of drafting the bill criminalizing enforced disappearances, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, including victims and civil society organizations, and to adopt such legislation promptly. It recalls that, according to article 4 (1) of the Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, all acts of enforced disappearance should be offences under criminal law punishable by appropriate penalties which shall take into account their extreme seriousness and that article 18 (1) provides that persons who have or are alleged to have committed enforced disappearances should not benefit from any special amnesty law or similar measures that might have the effect of exempting them from any criminal proceedings or sanction. 96. On 22 November 2016, the Working Group reiterated its request to visit the country, initially made in 2006. No response has been received yet from the Government; the Working Group hopes that a positive reply will be received soon. Pakistan 97. The Working Group is concerned about the fact that, during the reporting period, it has transmitted to the Government 119 new cases under its urgent action procedure (see 21