77 239. Furthermore, in Chapter IX of this Judgment, the Court has declared that Article 57.II.a of the Code of Military Justice is incompatible with the American Convention (supra paras. 178 and 179). Consequently, the Court reiterates to the State its obligation to harmonize, within a reasonable time, said provision with the international standards in this regard and with the Convention, in conformity with what is established in this Judgment. 240. Finally, pursuant to that established in Chapter IX of this Judgment, Mrs. Fernández Ortega did not have an appropriate and effective remedy to contest the intervention of the military justice system (supra paras. 180 to 183). As a consequence, Mexico must adopt, also within a reasonable time, the relevant legislative reforms to allow those affected by the intervention of the military forum to have available an effective remedy to contest its jurisdiction. iii) Public act of acknowledgement of responsibility 241. The Commission asked the Court to order acknowledge its responsibility for the harm caused. the State to publically 242. The representatives also asked that an act should be held during which the State would publically acknowledge its responsibility and the President of Mexico would offer an apology for the violations committed. This act must be translated to Me’paa language and held with “coverage by the principal state media.” In addition, they asked that the act should be carried out in consideration of the cultural context and according to criteria established by the authorities of the victim’s community and in keeping with her wishes, and she should indicate the place where the act should be held among other particularities. The representatives emphasized that Mrs. Fernández Ortega and her family must have a central role in the planification of the act. 243. The Court recalls that the State made a partial acknowledgement of its international responsibility at the public hearing held in this case (supra paras. 16 and 18) and that, in her expert opinion provided before this Court, expert witness Hernández Castillo indicated that, for the indigenous communities of Guerrero, it was particularly important that the author of a wrongdoing acknowledge his action publically. In particular, she noted that, in community justice proceedings before the community authorities, acknowledgement is the first step in “healing” the effects in the fabric of the community.248 244. The Court has determined that the State’s acknowledgement of partial responsibility before the Court is a positive contribution to the development of these proceedings and to the exercise of the principles that inspire the American Convention (supra para. 25). However, as in other cases,249 for this acknowledgement to achieve its full effect, the Court considers that the State must organize a public act of acknowledgement of international responsibility in relation to the facts of the present case. During this act, reference should be made to the human rights violations declared in this Judgment. The act should be carried out in a public ceremony, held in the Spanish and Me’paa languages, in the presence of senior authorities of the Nation and of the state of Guerrero, the victims in this case, and authorities/members of the victims’ community. The State, together with 248 Expert opinion rendered by expert Hernández Castillo during the public hearing, supra note 114. 249 Cf. Case of Kawas Fernández v. Honduras, supra note 91, para. 202; Case of Anzualdo Castro, supra note 90, para. 200, and Case of González et al. (“Cotton Fields”), supra note 15, para. 469.