A/HRC/4/41 page 12 32. During the period under review, the Working Group met formally with representatives of the Governments of Argentina, Guatemala, Japan, Kuwait, Nepal, Venezuela and Yemen. The Working Group also met with representatives of human rights organizations, associations of relatives of disappeared persons and families or witnesses directly concerned with reported cases of enforced disappearance. 33. During the second session of the Human Rights Council, the former Chairperson-Rapporteur, Mr. Toope, met with the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations. He also met with NGOs from Asia and with representatives of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists to discuss specific country situations and the work of the Working Group. 34. On 22 November 2006, the Chairperson-Rapporteur, Mr. Corcuera, participated in the meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Review of Mandates of the Council, where he spoke of the relationships between the mandate holders and between the mandate holders and other human rights mechanisms and actors, as well as the support to the special procedures offered by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. B. Communications 35. During the period under review, the Working Group transmitted 335 new cases of enforced disappearances to the Governments of Algeria, Bangladesh, China, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Thailand. 36. The Working Group sent 87 of these cases under the urgent action procedure to the Governments of Algeria, Bangladesh, China, Colombia, Honduras, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Thailand. 37. Of the newly reported cases, 79 allegedly occurred during the reporting period and relate to Algeria, China, Colombia, Honduras, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, the Syrian Arab Republic and Thailand. 38. During the same period, the Working Group clarified 152 cases in the following countries: Algeria, Brazil, Chad, Chile, China, Honduras, Morocco, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen. 39. During the reporting period, the Working Group sent five prompt intervention communications addressing harassment of and threats to human rights defenders and relatives of disappeared persons in Algeria, Argentina, Nepal and Thailand. The Working Group also sent seven general allegations to the Governments of Algeria, Colombia, Nepal, Peru, the Russian Federation, Sri Lanka and the United States of America. C. Country visits 40. At the invitation of the Government of Guatemala, Working Group members Santiago Corcuera and Darko Göttlicher, with staff from the Secretariat, visited Guatemala City