A/60/399 are sometimes visited by different mandate holders within a relatively short period of time. The Special Rapporteur welcomes in this respect the cooperation between special procedures and OHCHR in developing a coordinated effort on some aspects of the preparation of country visits. 12. More generally, the Special Rapporteur wishes to emphasize the increasingly beneficial character of the annual meetings of special rapporteurs/representatives, independent experts and chairpersons of working groups of the special procedures of the Commission on Human rights. The twelfth annual meeting (Geneva, 20-24 June 2005) allowed improvements in a number of aspects of the cooperation among special procedures The Special Rapporteur is pleased that the holding of these annual meetings has become institutionalized. 2. Preventive action 13. On the basis of the activities carried out since her appointment, the Special Rapporteur has noted that the present mandate cannot be limited to situations where the right to freedom of religion or belief has been actually violated, or where there are clear indications that the right to freedom of religion or belief of persons identified by name or as part of a group will be violated in the near future. In a number of situations, the terms of the mandate require the Special Rapporteur to take appropriate action even in the absence of an actual or imminent violation. This is, in particular, the case of draft legislation or legislation recently adopted and dealing with the right to freedom of religion or belief or another aspect of the mandate. In some instances, such texts contain provisions that are or may when applied be contrary to the right to freedom of religion or belief and its various components as recognized by international standards, or raise another concern within the scope of the mandate. 14. The Special Rapporteur needs to address these situations because they may be at the origin of actual human rights violations in the near or remote future. To this end, the Special Rapporteur also uses the “communication” tool, which is an appropriate way to transmit her concern to the Government in question and through which she is able to ask questions about the situation. 15. In this regard, the Special Rapporteur would like to draw the attention of Governments to the fact that communications are not necessarily a way to disclose human right violations and to blame the perpetrators, but also a way to exchange information on situations that constitute issues of concern under her mandate and to find ways to resolve them. The Special Rapporteur therefore urges States to respond accurately to the questions that are put to them in communications. 3. Early warning 16. On the basis of the activities carried out since her appointment as well as of the reports of her predecessor, the Special Rapporteur considers that the particular scope of application of the mandate on freedom of religion or belief as well as the related activities allow signs of future crises to be identified and may thus play the role of an early warning mechanism. 17. It is mainly during country visits that the Special Rapporteur is in a position to collect relevant information and assess on the ground the status of certain issues that 6