15. The Secretariat wrote to the Complainant on 9 August 2004, and requested additional information on the admissibility case. 16. On 9 August 2004, the Secretariat sent a reminder to the Respondent State requesting its submissions on the Communication’s admissibility. 17. On 16 August 2004, the Respondent State transmitted its submissions on admissibility to the Secretariat of the Commission. 18. The Secretariat acknowledged receipt of the submissions to the Respondent State on 11 October 2004 and transmitted them to the Complainant. 19. Having received no response from the Complainant, the Secretariat sent a reminder on 10 March 2005. 20. On 19 April 2005, the Complainant sent a document to the Secretariat, which stated that additional documents would be sent via email; however these documents were never received at the Secretariat. 21. At its 37th Ordinary Session, held from 27 April to 11 May 2005 in Banjul, The Gambia, the African Commission considered the Complaint and, pending the arrival of additional documents from the Complainant, decided to defer its decision on admissibility of the Complaint to its 38th Ordinary Session. 22. On 6 June 2005, the Secretariat wrote to the Complainant acknowledging receipt of its letter and attached documents, stressing the fact that the documents did not provide an answer to the question of exhaustion of local remedies, as challenged by the Respondent State. The letter further requested information on the documents which were to be sent by email but had not arrived, in addition to 5