-414. On October 25, 2002, the Commission notified the petitioners that the report had been adopted pursuant to Article 50 of the Convention and requested them to file, within two months, a statement of their position on the submission of the case to the jurisdiction of the Court. 15. On January 17, 2003, the State submitted a brief in answer to the recommendations of the Commission in its Report No. 66/02 (supra para. 12). Peru attached Report No. 101-2002-JUS/CNDH-SE issued by the Secretaría Ejecutiva del Consejo Nacional de Derechos Humanos (Office of the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Human Rights) on December 20, 2002, by which it stated, inter alia, that: it ratif[ied] the statement in the Joint Press Release of February 22, 2001, undertaking its international responsibility for the violation of the human rights of the SITRAMUN workers pursuant to Article 25(2)(c) of the American Convention on Human Rights, as per Report No. 54-2002-JUS/CNDH-SE of July 19, 2002. Likewise, it concluded, inter alia, that: The Peruvian Government and the SITRAMUN workers wish to institute a new stage of negotiations by the creation of an Ad Hoc Working Commission; for this reason it has to requested to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that said are conversations be taken into consideration before a final decision is adopted […] 16. On January 23, 2003, the State requested a three-month time extension to comply with the recommendations made by the Commission in its Report No. 66/02 (supra para. 12), which was granted by the Commission up to April 19, 2003. 17. On April 17, 2003, the State submitted Report No. 34-2004-JUS/CNDH-SE issued by the Secretaría Ejecutiva del Consejo Nacional de Derechos Humanos (Office of the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Human Rights) on April 16, 2003, by which it requested a new extension of 65 days to comply with the recommendations made by the Commission in its Report No. 66/02 (supra para. 12), which was granted by the Commission up to June 19, 2003. In said brief, Peru notified that by means of Supreme Resolution No. 015-2003-JUS a “Working Commission for the development of a final proposal for a solution” was created. On April 28, 2003, the State filed with the Commission a copy of Official Note No. 5152003-JUS/CNDH-SE addressed by the Secretaría Ejecutiva del Consejo Nacional de Derechos Humanos (Office of the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Human Rights) to the Director de Derechos Humanos y Asuntos Sociales del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Director of Human Rights and Social Matters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) by which it stated that “[t]he purpose of the application for an extension is that the Peruvian State may have an additional term to conclude the recently instituted negotiation process by [said] Working Commission to attempt to reach a friendly settlement in the instant case,” as well as “to exhaust the mechanisms aimed at complying with the recommendations made by the IACHR in Report No. 66/02.” 18. On June 19, 2003, the term for the State to submit the Report No. 66/02related information became due. According to the Commission “the State failed to forward an answer or any kind of information.” 19. On June 25, 2003, the Inter-American Commission decided to submit the instant case to the jurisdiction of the Court.