York Stock Exchange the day before the payment to make the respective calculation.
321. If, for causes that can be attributed to the beneficiaries of the compensation or their
heirs, it is not possible to pay the amounts established within the indicated time frame, the
State shall deposit the said amount in their favor in an account or certificate of deposit in a
solvent Guatemalan financial institution, in United States dollars, and in the most favorable
financial conditions allowed by law and banking practice. If, after ten years, the allocated
amount has not been claimed, the sum will be returned to the State with the accrued
interest.
322. The amounts allocated in this Judgment for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage
and reimbursement of costs and expenses must be delivered to the beneficiaries integrally,
as established in this Judgment, without any reductions arising from eventual taxes or
charges.
323. If the State fall into arrears with the payments, it must pay interest on the amount
owed corresponding to bank interest on arrears in Guatemala. Interest on arrears shall
begin to be calculated following the expiry of the two-year time frame after notification of
this Judgment.
XV
OPERATIVE PARAGRAPHS
324.
Therefore,
THE COURT
DECIDES,
unanimously,
1.
To accept the acknowledgement of international responsibility made by the State, in
the terms of paragraphs 17 to 28 of the Judgment.
2.
To admit the preliminary objection filed by the State concerning the lack of temporal
competence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to examine the human rights
violations that occurred before the State had recognized the temporal competence of the
Court, in the terms of paragraphs 29 to 39 of this Judgment.
DECLARES,
unanimously that,
1.
The State is responsible for the violation of the rights recognized in Articles 3, 4(1),
5(1), 5(2) and 7(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights, in relation to Article 1(1)
thereof, and for failing to comply with the obligations established in Article I(a) of the InterAmerican Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons, to the detriment of Ramona Lajuj,
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