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78.
The Commission submitted copies of 27 documents during the preliminary
objections stage. 4
Nicaragua of Nicaragua in 1990; a copy, certified by a notary public, of page three hundred and one to
page three hundred and nine of the Boletín Judicial of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua of
Nicaragua in 1991; a copy, certified by a notary public, of page three hundred and forty-five to page
three hundred and fifty-two of the Boletín Judicial of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua of
Nicaragua in 1992; a copy, certified by a notary public, of page three hundred and sixteen to page three
hundred and twenty of the Boletín Judicial of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua of Nicaragua in
1993; a copy, certified by a notary public, of page two hundred and seventy-eight to page two hundred
and eighty-three of the Boletín Judicial of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua of Nicaragua in
1994; a copy, certified by a notary public, of the four pages of the Boletín Judicial of the Supreme Court
of Justice of Nicaragua with Judgment No. 19, of March 7, 1994, of the Supreme Court of Justice of
Nicaragua; a copy, certified by a notary public, of the two pages of the Boletín Judicial of the Supreme
Court of Justice of Nicaragua with Judgment No. 2, of January 19, 1994, of the Supreme Court of Justice
of Nicaragua; a copy, certified by a notary public, of page two hundred and seventy-one to page two
hundred and seventy-six of the Boletín Judicial of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua of Nicaragua
in 1995; a copy, certified by a notary public, of page six hundred and six to page six hundred and
sixteen of the Boletín Judicial of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua of Nicaragua in 1996; a
certificate issued on May 27, 1999, by Humberto Useda Hernández, Executive Director of Juridical
Services of the Office of rural titling of the Property Administration of the Ministry of the Treasury and
Public Credit in Nicaragua; Political Constitution of the Republic of Nicaragua published in “El Nuevo
Diario” on July 4, 1995; Law No. 49, “Amparo Law”, published in the official newspaper La Gaceta No.
241, 1988; Law No. 290, “Law on Organization, Competence and Procedures of the Executive Branch of
Government”, published in the official newspaper La Gaceta No. 102, on June 3, 1998; and pages 8984 to
8989 of the official newspaper La Gaceta No. 205, on October 30, 1998.
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cfr. the December 4, 1997 brief by Felipe Rodríguez Chávez, Ambassador, Permanent
Representative of Nicaragua to the OAS, addressed to Jorge E. Taiana, Executive Secretary of the
Commission; the December 19, 1997 brief by Felipe Rodríguez Chávez, Ambassador, Permanent
Representative of Nicaragua to the OAS, addressed to Jorge E. Taiana, Executive Secretary of the
Commission; the February 14, 1998 brief by Felipe Rodríguez Chávez, Ambassador, Permanent
Representative of Nicaragua to the OAS, addressed to Jorge E. Taiana, Executive Secretary of the
Commission; the May 6, 1998 brief by Felipe Rodríguez Chávez, Ambassador, Permanent Representative
of Nicaragua to the OAS, addressed to Jorge E. Taiana, Executive Secretary of the Commission,
attaching: the May 6, 1998 brief by Lester Mejía Solís, Ambassador, General Director, General Directorate
for International Organizations, addressed to the Inter-American Commission; official letter MN-RSV-020113.98 of February 16, 1998, by Roberto Stadhagen Vogl, Minister of MARENA, addressed to Michael
Kang, General Manager of SOLCARSA; copy of Decree No. 16-96, “Establishment of the National
Committee for Demarcation of the Lands of the Indigenous Communities of the Atlantic Coast”, of August
23, 1996, published in the official newspaper La Gaceta No. 169 on September 6, 1996; May 19, 1998
brief by Felipe Rodríguez Chávez, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the OAS,
addressed to Jorge E. Taiana, Executive Secretary of the Commission; sworn statement by Charly
Webster Mclean Cornelio on August 30, 1998; sworn statement by Jaime Castillo Felipe on August 30,
1998; sworn statement by Marcial Salomón Sebastián on August 30, 1998; sworn statement by Benevicto
Salomón Mclean on August 30, 1998; sworn statement by Wilfredo Mclean Salvador on August 30, 1998;
statement by Sydney Antonio P. on August 30, 1998; statement by Ramón Rayo Méndez on August 29,
1998; sworn statement by Miguel Taylor Ortez on August 30, 1998; sworn statement by Ramón Rayo
Méndez on August 30, 1998, to which was attached: copy of a handwritten document with the dates June
28, 11 and 18, 1993, of the Record which the Regional Delegation of INRA allegedly kept; sworn
statement by Brooklyn Rivera Bryan on August 30, 1998; sworn statement by Benigno Torres Cristian on
September 8, 1998; resolution No. 08-12-9-96 of September 12, 1996, of the Regional Council of the
RAAN; sworn statement by Ned Archivold Jacobo on August 30, 1998; official judicial notice of August 12,
1998, signed by Martha López Corea, Notifying Official, Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of
Justice of Nicaragua, in which María Luisa Acosta Castellón is notified of the August 6, 1998 writ of the
Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua; sworn statement by Humberto
Thompson Sang on August 31, 1998; July, 1996 document “Land, Natural Resources and Indigenous
Rights on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Juridical Reflection to Define a Strategy for Indigenous
Participation in Participation and Development Projects”, prepared by “The World Bank, Technical
Department Latin America & the Caribbean”; judgment No. 163 of October 14, 1998 by the Constitutional
Court of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua regarding the amparo remedy filed by María Luisa
Acosta Castellón, as the legal representative of Benevicto Salomón Mclean, Siriaco Castillo Fenley,
Orlando Salomón Felipe and Jotam López Espinoza, on their own behalf and as Syndic, Coordinator, Town
Judge and Person Responsible for the Forest, respectively, in the Awas Tingni Community, against
Roberto Stadhagen Vogl, Minister of MARENA, Roberto Araquistain, General Director of the National
Forestry Service of MARENA, Jorge Brooks Saldaña, Director of the State Forestry Administration of