A/HRC/46/26 Rapporteur and that of the treaty bodies, such as the Committee against Torture and the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture. 52. Some States also made specific requests to the mandate holder, such as (a) that the mandate holder, after receiving responses to official communications, confirm whether the case had been closed or required further information; (b) the need for more flexibility in setting dates for country visits, taking into account national agendas; and (c) the importance of dialogue and cooperation with the mandate holder also outside the framework of official communications and country visits. 53. Despite the small number of responses received, the Special Rapporteur takes due note of the observations made and the challenges reported by States and, to the extent possible and appropriate, will try to address them within the framework of the resources made available to the mandate. F. Cooperation of States in response to official communications 1. Statistical evaluation 54. Between 1 November 2016 and 31 October 2020, the Special Rapporteur transmitted 514 official communications relating to allegations of torture and ill-treatment to Member States, both individually and jointly with other mandate holders. During the same period, the mandate holder also sent 16 communications to non-State actors (not included in the present report). As at 31 December 2020, one of the 514 communications transmitted to States did not require a reply (one reply received was awaiting translation and, therefore, could not be evaluated). The statistical assessment made below is therefore based on a total of 512 communications. 55. On the basis of a substantive analysis of cooperation shown by States for each of the official communications transmitted during the period under review (including “urgent appeals”, “allegation letters” and “other letters”), and by reference to the relevant standards set by the Human Rights Council as outlined above, the Special Rapporteur divides cooperation into four categories: ▪ Full cooperation ▪ Partial cooperation ▪ No response ▪ Pending (see relevant section below) 56. A global statistical analysis of the period under review (see figure 1 below) revealed that, in response to the 512 communications transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: • 186 responses (36 per cent) did not solicit any response (no cooperation) • 278 responses (54 per cent) were otherwise deemed unsatisfactory (partial cooperation) • 48 responses (10 per cent) were satisfactory (full cooperation) 57. The low degree of responsiveness and cooperation reflected in the statistics is by no means a recent phenomenon, but has rather been a constant pattern since the establishment of the mandate by the Commission on Human Rights in 1985. In the very first report of the mandate submitted to the Commission (E/CN.4/1986/15), the Special Rapporteur stressed that, while he had transmitted allegations of torture to 33 Governments, only 11 had responded to his requests for information. The comprehensive observation reports prepared by other previous mandate holders reflect similar proportions in terms of both responsiveness and cooperation. 10