11 State also presented a report of the collection of DNA samples and their processing. At the hearing, the State indicated that even though the investigative actions did not have positive results, they did allow it to rule out possible locations where there were traces of human remains, considering that the area has changed with the passing of time and that it is very extensive, and it got ahead of itself when it stated that for the year 2009 several actions would be carried out. In its last report, it indicated that the investigative an exhumation actions carried out in the month of August 2007- observed by the representatives- were practiced at that moment of the year, as many other actions with a satisfactory result, considering the information offered by the Meteorology and Weather Analysis Institute, IMAY, and by the General Management of the Urrá Dam regarding the climate and the flows of the Sinú River, since that month falls in the summer, but on that opportunity the action was suspended because the land was flooded. It added that the actions have been carried out with the technical support of criminal science groups made up by several professionals and with the presence of the representatives and the experts invited by them. Finally, it reiterated its will to carry out “all the actions within its reach to search for the remains of the victims,” hoping that the Court will so acknowledge it in its order of compliance. 20. That the representatives indicated that, according to the report of the State itself, the Solicitor General of the Republic had not included in the search and identification process of the disappeared persons the United Nations Protocol regarding the search and identification of disappeared persons, or domestic search mechanisms such as the National Search Plan approved in February 2007 by the Search Commission for disappeared persons, as had been ordered by the Court in the Judgment. Likewise, the representatives informed that there was “resistance of the Solicitor General of the Republic to include scientific and technical mechanisms that would lead to the execution of a serious and effective search plan.” Regarding the research activities, they acknowledge that an excavation was carried out between the 14 and 22 days of August 2007 at the “Las Tangas” estate, where 643 pits were excavated, and the activity had to be interrupted due to adverse weather conditions. They also mentioned that several factors prevented the appropriate development of the action, such as for example, the low number of personnel for the excavation, the few tools available, the lack of prevision and coordination of the authorities manifested especially through the flooding of the land with water channels due to the opening of the floodgates of the Urrá dam, among other problems of a technical nature. 21. That at the same time the representatives requested that, “the full identification of the remains recognized through evidence in 1990, which are located in the cemetery of the township of Pueblo Bello, be programmed.” Likewise, they mentioned that they had filed a petition regarding the destination of the samples taken from 100 next of kin of those disappeared in 1998 and that from the information provided by the Public Prosecutors’ Office in August 2008 it could be concluded that none of those missing has a “Single Registry of Disappeared Persons”. They added that of the 100 samples taken, only 50 had been processed and that “the format of the chain of custody was only found on 9 samples.” The representatives also informed that making the most of the opportunity of the publication of the Judgment, “an ad requesting information of the whereabouts of the victims” was published in a newspaper of national circulation. Despite the latter, the representatives stated that they do not know if the publication was made in the local oral and written means of communication, nor if it was, which was the result of the measure. In the hearing, they indicated that the State limited its actions to reiterating the information already known by the Court, even though they consider that the Public Prosecutors’ Office made progress in the mechanisms that allow it to identify the human remains, namely, the recollection of information on the