3 1. That Argentina has been a State Party to the American Convention since September 05, 1984 and, pursuant to Article 62 thereof, on ratifying it Argentina acknowledged the Court’s contentious jurisdiction. 2. Under Article 63(2) of the American Convention, “[i]n cases of extreme gravity and urgency, and when necessary to avoid irreparable damage to persons, the Court shall adopt such provisional measures as it deems pertinent in matters it has under consideration. With respect to matters not yet submitted to it, the Court may act at the request of the Commission.” 3. In this regard, Article 25 of the Rules provides that: [...] 2. With respect to matters not yet submitted to it, the Court may act at the request of the Commission. [...] 6. The beneficiaries of provisional measures or urgent measures ordered by the President may address their comments on the report made by the State directly to the Court. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights shall present observations to the State’s report and to the observations of the beneficiaries or their representatives. * * * 4. That, in relation to the duty to immediately adopt all such measures as are necessary to preserve the rights to life and to physical integrity of the beneficiaries of these provisional measures (operative paragraph No. 1 of the Order of July 6, 2006), the State informed that, following his escape and subsequent capture, Mr. Juan Pablo Caba was transferred from the Comodoro Rivadavia Penitentiary to the “Rawson Security and Resocialization Institute, Unit 6, a maximum security prison under the authority of the Federal Penitentiary Service, where he is kept in a cellblock considered to be ‘quiet’ and where he has had visits.” Furthermore, the State informed that it has taken steps towards installing of a surveillance closed circuit TV system in Comodoro Rivadavia Penitentiary No. 1. In that regard, it pointed out that the representatives stated to the State that the surveillance closed circuit system “bec[ame] useless as Juan Pablo Caba was no longer being kept in that place, so they dropped their request.” The State pointed out that Mr. Miguel Ángel Sánchez was transferred on August 17, 2006 to Detention Center No. 1 of Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, escorted by members of staff of the Chubut Human Rights Department. As regards the protection of Tamara Bolívar, Patricia Oliva, Gerardo Colin and Watler Mansilla (infra, Considering Clause No. 5), who have no fixed residence, the State informed that the incorporation of such persons into the witness protection program requires a request from the authorized party to the judicial authority; however, it stated that no such request had been made. Finally, it stated that the Executive Power of the Province of Chubut “provided cell phones to each of the individuals subject to provisional measures so they would be in direct touch with the National Border Police.”