A/HRC/4/41 page 37 General allegation Prompt intervention letter Working Group request for a visit N/A N/A N/A Government response Government response Government response N/A N/A N/A 168. There was no activity during the period under review. A summary of the situation in the country is in the last report (E/CN.4/2006/56 and Corr.1). El Salvador Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review 2 270 Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review Cases sent under Cases sent under the urgent action the standard procedure procedure 0 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 0 0 Cases clarified during the period under review by: Government Non-governmental sources 0 Multiple replies on some cases General allegation Prompt intervention letter Working Group request for a visit N/A N/A N/A Yes 0 Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 2 270 Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6-month rule) N/A Government response Government response Government response N/A N/A Yes Information from the Government 169. No information was received from the Government regarding outstanding cases. Information from sources 170. No information was received from sources regarding outstanding cases. Request for a visit 171. Following a decision of the Working Group at the seventy-eighth session, a request for a visit as part of a four-country initiative in Central America was sent to the Government of El Salvador on 23 May 2006. The Government agreed and dates are being finalized for the mission to take place in February 2007. Summary of the situation prior to the period under review 172. The majority of the 2,661 reported cases of disappearance occurred between 1980 and 1983, in the context of the armed conflict between the Government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. Many people disappeared following arrest by uniformed soldiers or police, or were abducted in death-squad style operations carried out by armed men wearing civilian clothing and reportedly linked to the Army or to the security forces. Abductions of this kind in some cases subsequently became formal detentions, thus giving rise to allegations of links with the security forces.