A/HRC/4/40 page 15 mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, have not yet replied to the Working Group’s requests. During its forty-sixth session, the Working Group held meetings with representatives of the Governments of Angola, India, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the United States to examine the possibility of visiting those countries in 2007. During its forty-seventh session, the Working Group made a revision of the list of countries it had requested to visit in the past and decided to reiterate its request to be authorized to visit, in addition to those already mentioned, the following countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, India, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Turkmenistan and the United States of America. 2. Follow-up to country visits of the Working Group 23. In its resolution 1998/74, the Commission on Human Rights requested those responsible for the Commission’s thematic mechanisms to keep the Commission informed on the follow-up to all recommendations addressed to Governments. In response to this request, the Working Group in 1998 decided (see E/CN.4/1999/63, para. 36) to address a follow-up letter to the Governments of the countries it had visited, together with a copy of the relevant recommendations adopted by the Working Group contained in the reports on its country visits. 24. Communications were addressed to the Governments of Belarus, Latvia and China requesting information on such initiatives as the authorities might have taken to give effect to the recommendations contained in the reports to the Commission on the Working Group’s visits to these countries in 2004 (E/CN.4/2005/6/Add.3, 2 and 4, respectively). Latvia 25. At the end of the Working Group’s visit to Latvia, the Government informed the Working Group that its recommendations were being carefully examined with a view to amending legislative norms and improving administrative practices. The Government’s priorities in the area of criminal justice were to improve the effectiveness of control over detention, paying special attention to the situation of juveniles; to facilitate the work for probation services; to promote alternative sanctions and to improve the physical conditions of detention. The Ministry of Justice was implementing a juvenile court system and had prepared a draft of a new Criminal Procedure Code. A Law on State-guaranteed Free Legal Assistance had been adopted and another Law on the imposition of Coercive Measures on Children had entered into force. The Imprisonment Facility Management Board had placed among its priorities the establishment of a central national register of imprisoned persons. Belarus 26. At the end of the Working Group’s visit to Belarus, the Government reported that some amendments and additions were being made to the legislation on the conditions of pretrial detention, as well as to the law on criminal proceedings for minors. It was working to implement the Working Group’s recommendations, particularly through the adoption of a code on the administration of justice and the status of judges. A draft law on the legal status of foreigners had been drawn up. Efforts were continuing to improve the Criminal Procedure Code. It further reported that the Working Group’s recommendations on the judicial decisions of forced placement in psychiatric hospitals were also under due consideration.