51 j. on January 5, 1995, the National Forestry Service of MARENA approved the forest management plan submitted by SOLCARSA to utilize timber “in the area of the Wawa River and Cerro Wakambay”. In March, 1995, that plan was submitted to the Regional Council of the RAAN. On April 28, 1995, the Regional Coordinator of the RAAN and the SOLCARSA corporation signed an agreement, and on June 28 of that year the Board of Directors of the Regional Council of the RAAN, in resolution No. 295, recognized that agreement and authorized the beginning of logging operations in the area of Wakambay, as set forth in the forest management plan;24 k. on March 13, 1996 the State, through MARENA, granted a 30 year concession to the SOLCARSA corporation to manage and utilize the forest in an area of roughly 62,000 hectares located in the RAAN, between the municipalities of Puerto Cabezas and Waspam;25 l. SOLCARSA was sanctioned by Ministerial Order No. 02-97, adopted by MARENA on May 16, 1997, for having illegally felled trees “on the site of the Kukulaya community” and for having carried out works without the environmental permit;26 m. on February 27, 1997 the Constitutional Panel of the Supreme Court of Justice declared the concession granted to SOLCARSA to be unconstitutional because it had not been approved by the plenary of the Regional Council of the RAAN (infra para. 103(q)(iii)). Subsequently, the Minister of MARENA requested that the Regional Council of the RAAN approve this concession;27 24 cfr. June 28, 1995 administrative provision No. 2–95 of the Board of Directors of the Regional Council of the RAAN; testimony in public instrument number one of protocol number twenty of notary public Oscar Saravia Baltodano which includes the “Forest Management and Use Contract” signed on March 13, 1996 by Claudio Gutiérrez Huete, representing MARENA, and Hyong Seock Byun, representing the SOLCARSA corporation; resolution No. 17-08-10-97 of the Regional Council of the RAAN on October 9, 1997; and the December, 1994 document “Cerro Wambakay Broad-leafed Forest Management Plan (Final Edition)”, prepared by Swietenia S.A. Consultores for KUMKYUNG CO., LTD. 25 cfr. testimony of public instrument number one of protocol number twenty of notary public Oscar Saravia Baltodano which includes the “Forest Management and Use Contract” signed on March 13, 1996 by Claudio Gutiérrez Huete, representing MARENA, and Hyong Seock Byun, representing the SOLCARSA corporation; official letter MN-RSV-02-0113.98 on February 16, 1998, by Roberto Stadhagen Vogl, Minister of MARENA, to Michael Kang, General Manager of SOLCARSA; judgment No. 12 of February 27, 1997, by the Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua on the amparo remedy filed on March 29, 1997 before the Appellate Court of Matagalpa by Alfonso Smith Warman and Humberto Thompson Sang, members of the Regional Council of the RAAN, against Claudio Gutiérrez, Minister of MARENA, and Alejandro Láinez, Director of the National Forestry Administration of MARENA; and Ministerial order No. 02–97 of May 16, 1997, by the Minister of MARENA. 26 cfr. Ministerial order No. 02–97 of May 16, 1997, by the Minister of MARENA. 27 cfr. Decision No. 12 of February 27, 1997 by the Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua on the amparo remedy filed on March 29, 1997 before the Appellate Court of Matagalpa by Alfonso Smith Warman and Humberto Thompson Sang, members of the Regional Council of the RAAN, against Claudio Gutiérrez, Minister of MARENA, and Alejandro Láinez, Director of the National Forestry Administration of MARENA; official letter MN-RSV-0377.97 of May 29, 1997 by Roberto Stadhagen Vogl, Minister of MARENA, to Efraín Osejo Morales, President of the Regional Council of the RAAN; resolution No. 17-08-10-97 of October 9, 1997 by the Regional Council of the RAAN; request for execution of judgment No. 12 of February 27, 1997, by the Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua, filed on January 22, 1998 at the Secretariat of the Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua by Humberto Thompson Sang, member of the Regional Council of the RAAN; February 3, 1998 order by the Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua, regarding the request for execution of judgment No. 12 of February 27, 1997, by the Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua, filed by Humberto Thompson Sang, member of the Regional Council of the RAAN; statement by Mario Guevara Somarriba on October 3, 1997; and statement by Guillermo Ernesto Espinoza Duarte, Vice-mayor, at that time Acing Mayor of Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, RAAN, on October 1, 1997.

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