A/HRC/39/45 Romania (1 urgent appeal) Russian Federation (3 urgent appeals) Saudi Arabia (3 urgent appeals) Slovakia (1 urgent appeal) Sudan (3 urgent appeals) Tajikistan (1 urgent appeal) Turkey (5 urgent appeals) United Arab Emirates (3 urgent appeals) United States of America (3 urgent appeals) Uzbekistan (1 urgent appeal) Viet Nam (1 urgent appeal) 33. The full text of the urgent appeals can be consulted in the joint reports on communications.2 34. In conformity with paragraphs 22 to 24 of its methods of work, the Working Group, without prejudging whether a detention was arbitrary, drew the attention of each of the Governments concerned to the specific case as reported and appealed to them, often jointly with other special procedure mandate holders, to take the measures necessary to ensure that the detained persons’ rights to life, liberty, and physical and psychological integrity were respected. 35. When an appeal made reference to the critical state of health of certain persons or to particular circumstances, such as the failure to execute a court order for release or to give effect to a previous opinion of the Working Group seeking the release of the person, the Working Group requested that all measures necessary for the immediate release of the detained person be taken. In accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 5/2, the Working Group integrated into its methods of work the prescriptions of the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the Human Rights Council relating to urgent appeals and has since applied them. 36. During the period under review, the Working Group also sent 41 letters of allegation and other letters to Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Egypt (3), France, Haiti, Israel, Lebanon, Maldives, Malta, Mexico (2), Morocco (2), Nigeria, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia (2), Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey (4), Turkmenistan, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, the United Republic of Tanzania, the United States of America and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (2). 37. The Working Group wishes to thank those Governments that responded to its appeals and that took steps to provide it with information on the situation of the individuals concerned, especially the Governments who released such individuals. The Working Group recalls that, in paragraph 4 (f) of its resolution 5/1, the Human Rights Council requested all States to cooperate and engage fully with the United Nations human rights mechanisms. B. Country visits 1. Requests for visits 38. During 2017, the Working Group made requests to visit Australia (7 August 2017), the Bahamas (2 March 2017), Bahrain (17 January 2017), Bhutan (1 March 2017), Cameroon (24 January 2017), Côte d’Ivoire (24 January 2017), India (6 April 2017), 2 24 For communications reports of the special procedures, see www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/CommunicationsreportsSP.aspx.