ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF JANUARY 29, 1999 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REQUESTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA CLEMENTE TEHERÁN ET AL. CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Inter-American Court”) of June 19, 1998. 2. The fourth report of the State of Colombia (hereinafter “the State” or “Colombia”) of October 9, 1998, in which it asserted that the State was undertaking educational activities and fulfilling its duties of vigilance and control in order to provide the Zenú Indigenous Community (hereinafter “the Community”) better security; that it had investigated the denounced acts and punished the persons responsible for the acts of violence against the members of the Community, and that it requested that the normal processing of this case be continued before the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission”) inasmuch as the premises of Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention”) were not present. 3. The fifth report of the State dated December 15, 1998, by means of which it stated: a) With respect to the communications between the State and the community: that meetings were held periodically between the national and local authorities and the members of the Community for the purpose of dealing with their different plans. b) With respect to the persons protected: that on October 26, 27, and 28, 1998, a Zenú indigenous conference took place in the Community of Bajo Grande, in the jurisdiction of the Municipality of San Andrés de Sotavento, under the protection of the National Police; that at this conference “guidelines were set for internal elections”; that on October 30, 1998, in the installations of the National Police of San Andrés de Sotavento, the Communications Network of Zenú Protection was formally inaugurated, an event that was attended by departmental and local authorities and a large part of the community, “which expressed its appreciation for the efforts made by the National Government”; that two portable radios were given to Marcelino Suárez, Head Chief, and Nilson Manuel Zurita, Indigenous Councillor; that the Department of the Interior expressed its preoccupation concerning “the improper behavior” of Councillor Nilson Zurita, who has failed to comply with the recommendations made by the Protection Program of that Department, knowing that, in accordance with the regulations of that program, his neglect of the recommendations authorizes the “Committee of Regulations and Evaluation of Risks” to suspend or definitely take away the measures of protection; that the State has made great efforts without sparing resources, for the purpose of preserving the life and physical safety of the members of the Community and improving the quality of life and the expansion of protection, and that the “programs of assistance to the Community” offered by the State have been developed without any setbacks, a situation recognized by the indigenous authorities and the population in general.