A/73/205 Annex Contributions to the report From 1 August 2005 to 1 December 2016, the holders of the mandate on minority issues have sent 239 individual communications to Governments. In 2005, the first year of the mandate’s existence, only one communication was sent. Since then, however, there has been an almost steady increase, with the highest number sent in 2011 (37), when the current mandate holder took office (see ta ble). Year Communications sent 2005 1 2006 10 2007 16 2008 10 2009 10 2010 10 2011 37 2012 30 2013 31 2014 34 2015 29 2016 (until 1 Dec) 21 Total A. 16/19 239 Contributions to and participants in the regional expert consultation held in Bangkok on 30 April and 1 May 2018 Name and title Organization José-María Arraiza, leader of the Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance Programme Norwegian Refugee Council, Myanmar Timnah Baker, Research Fellow Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, Australia Patrick Balazo, Researcher Canadian Centre on Statelessness and Justice Centre Hong Kong, China Laura Bingham, Senior Managing Legal Officer for Equality and Citizenship Open Society Justice Initiative, United States of America Helen Brunt, Senior Migration Officer International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Thailand Amal de Chickera, Co-Director and Co-Founder Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, Netherlands Suu Chit, Director The Seagull, Myanmar 18-12048