42 f) providing the necessary means for giving and guaranteeing primary, secondary and university education to the children of Mr. Oscar José BlancoRomero and Mrs. Alejandra Josefina Iriarte de Blanco; g) issuing an official certificate whereby Aleoscar Russeth Blanco-Iriarte be authorized to leave the country, with her mother’s previous consent; h) designing teaching aids and regular courses in all enrollment, training, promotion and advancement programmes for members of the armed forces of Venezuela and of the DISIP, dealing with human rights and particularly with the state duties on the matter and with the absolute prohibition of torture and of forced disappearance of persons; i) designing and implementing a permanent training programme on human rights for judges and prosecutors, specifically including as subjects of study international human rights rules, jurisprudence and case law on forced disappearance, and the writ of habeas corpus; j) to institute a memorial day aimed at awakening the conscience of Venezuelan society in order to avoid recurrence of events such as those reported in the instant case; and k) adapting domestic international standards. legislation concerning forced disappearance to Arguments by the State 92. The State contended that: a) in the course of the public hearing, as a token of respect and consideration towards the victims, it “requested the Court permission to present its apologies directly” to them; b) regarding the “closing of the prosecution” ordered on may 14, 2004 in the inquest into the forced disappearance of Messrs. Roberto Javier HernándezPaz and José Francisco Rivas-Fernández, such decision was notified to the victims, but they have failed to provide information that might enable the reopening of such inquest, and no new pieces of evidence as might guarantee such reopening thereof have appeared; c) the proceedings for the forced disappearance of Mr. Oscar José BlancoRomero are at the “oral and public trial stage.” However, it has not been possible to hold the hearing of the case because “the persons called to testify during the trial failed to appear”, and they “are vital for the Prosecution to be able to establish the responsibility of the accused parties and therefore have them effectively punished”; and d) a statute has been enacted whereby forced disappearance has been described as a crime, which has appeared in the Gaceta Oficial Extraordinaria (Special Official Gazette) No. 5,768 of April 13, 2005, something which “decisively contributes to prevent [the] commission of such crimes.” Furthermore, the “lecture programmes for public servants whose duties touch

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