3 kin (hereinafter “the representatives”) expressed their concern regarding the State’s failure to comply with the measures of reparation in relation to medical and psychological treatment, creation of a genetic information database, and establishment of a national tracing commission. 4. On January 9, 2007, the Office of the Ombudsman (Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos) of the State of El Salvador submitted a document entitled “Second Report of the [said] Ombudsman […] regarding compliance by the State of El Salvador with the Judgment issued by the Court […] in the case of the sisters Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz.” 5. The brief of January 24, 2007, and its appendixes, in which the State presented the report on Compliance with Judgment, in response to the request contained in the second operative paragraph of the Order of September 22, 2006 (supra Having seen paragraph 2). Also, the communication of November 28, 2006, and its appendixes, in which El Salvador advised that it had paid the Asociación Pro-Búsqueda the relevant amount to reimburse its costs and expenses. In brief, El Salvador indicated that: (a) Regarding the obligation to investigate and undertake a genuine search for the victims, it referred to the criminal proceedings before the Chalatenango Trial Court and the measures taken; (b) Regarding the “establishment of a national commission to trace young people who disappeared during the armed conflict when they were children, with the participation of civil society”: i) It referred to the work undertaken by the Inter-institutional Commission for Tracing Disappeared Children as a Consequence of the Armed Conflict (hereinafter “Inter-institutional Tracing Commission”) since January 2006; to the investigations it has carried out, and to the professionals who are members of the Commission, and indicated, inter alia, that of “the 79 cases registered, 52 have been investigated, and 17 cases have been resolved”; ii) It referred to the different State institutions that have responded to the requests for information by the Inter-institutional Tracing Commission. They included the Second Court for the Protection of Minors, the Office of the Public Prosecutor (Procuraduría General) of the Republic, the National Register of Natural Persons (RNPN), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Salvadoran Institute for the Integral Development of Children and Adolescents (ISNA), the Ministry of Governance, and the Ministry of National Defense. Support had also been received from the consulates of El Salvador in several countries; iii) “To ensure that governmental institutions provide the required information, each institution that forms part of the Commission has appointed a liaison person within the institution, which permits them to have easy access to the information requested during the investigations,” and “the heads of the institutions which are members of the commission have expressed their willingness and commitment to provide the information requested.”

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