A/HRC/22/45 15. During the reporting period, all the members of the Working Group carried out a number of activities connected to enforced disappearances, which included their participation in seminars, training events, workshops and lectures. B. Meetings 16. During the period under review, representatives of the Governments of Algeria, the Gambia, Guatemala, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Japan, Morocco, Namibia, Pakistan, the Republic of Korea, Serbia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Togo attended the sessions of the Working Group. A number of other informal meetings were held with various States during the year. The Working Group also met with the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, representatives of international governmental organizations, human rights non-governmental organizations and associations of relatives of disappeared persons and families of victims of enforced disappearances or witnesses thereto. C. Communications 17. During the reporting period, the Working Group transmitted 208 new cases of enforced disappearance to 21 States. 18. The Working Group transmitted 59 of the above-mentioned cases under the urgentaction procedure to Algeria, Bangladesh, the Central African Republic, Mauritania, Mexico, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Thailand, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. 19. During the same period, the Working Group clarified 74 cases, in Algeria, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Myanmar, Pakistan, Spain, the Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan and Uruguay. Of the 74 cases, 61 were clarified on the basis of information provided by Governments, and 13 on the basis of information provided by sources. 20. During the reporting period, the Working Group transmitted 10 prompt-intervention communications addressing harassment of and threats to human rights defenders and relatives of disappeared persons in Algeria, India, Mexico, the Russian Federation, Sri Lanka and Turkey. All were sent as joint communications with other special procedures mandates. 21. The Working Group transmitted 16 urgent appeals concerning persons who had been arrested, detained, abducted or otherwise deprived of their liberty or who had been forcibly disappeared or were at risk of disappearance in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Jordan, Mali, Mexico, the Syrian Arab Republic, the United Arab Emirates and Zimbabwe. All communications were sent jointly with other special procedures mechanisms. 22. During the reporting period, the Working Group transmitted three general allegations, to the Governments of Eritrea, of Lithuania and of the Philippines,1 and adopted a general allegation on Thailand. The Working Group also transmitted, jointly with other special procedures mechanisms, two general allegations to the Democratic People‘s Republic of Korea and Colombia (see also annex I). 1 As indicated in the previous annual report (see A/HRC/19/58/Rev.1, para. 22), summaries of the three general allegations, which were considered by the Working Group at its ninety-fifth session, are included in annex I. 5