A/HRC/7/29 page 6 9. The agenda was approved by participants. The planned exchange of views with the new President of the Council could not be held because the Council was in session. The Chairperson of the meeting was asked to address an organizational session of the Council on 22 June. In her statement, she referred to the institution-building process and the role that special procedures were ready to play in the new framework, including in connection with the selection procedure for mandate-holders and the review of mandates process, UPR and the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. 10. A number of issues were identified that should be given adequate time for discussion during the fifteenth annual meeting. They included exchanges of views with regional human rights mechanisms and representatives of other United Nations agencies and programmes; briefing on new human rights instruments, such as the rights of persons with disabilities; cooperation with national human rights institutions; and discussions on issues of special concern. 11. A number of parallel events were organized outside the formal agenda of the meeting. Several mandate-holders attended those events.2 III. ACTIVITIES OF THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE 12. The outgoing Chairperson, Vitit Muntarbhorn, briefed participants on the activities of the Coordination Committee under his chairmanship. 13. The first thread of activities of the Committee was related to interaction with the Human Rights Council and other stakeholders with regard to the institution-building process. The aim was to ensure that the review of mandates would result in a more effective and strengthened system of special procedures. 14. The Chairperson of the Committee had delivered two statements on behalf of the special procedures mandate-holders at the first and second sessions of the Council. At the second and fourth sessions of the Council, the Committee held meetings with the President, the facilitators of the institution-building working groups of the Council and the coordinators of regional and other groups. The Chairperson gave a public briefing on 29 March 2007 in Geneva. At the final session of the Working Group on the Review of Mandates, in April 2007, the Chairperson of the Committee again held meetings with the President of the Council and other stakeholders. 15. The second thread of activities was related to facilitating cooperation among mandate-holders. The Committee held two meetings, in Geneva and New York, and telephone conferences approximately every six weeks. Mandate-holders were consulted by e-mail, telephone and other means on various occasions, with a view to facilitating cooperation and a common response to issues that arose during the year. 2 The events included discussions on human rights impact of corporate activity; the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol; possibilities of cooperation between special procedure mandate-holders and national human rights institutions; security and travel procedures; and the RWI/UNU book project on special procedures.