-55 RESOLVES: 1. To ratify the Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of March 23, 1998. 2. To call upon the State of Colombia to maintain the measures necessary for protecting the lives and personal safety of Rosember Clemente-Teherán, Armando Mercado, Nilson Zurita, Edilberto Gaspar-Rosario, Dorancel Ortiz, Leovigildo Castillo, Santiago Méndez, Zoila Riondo, Saúl Lucas, José Guillermo Carmona, Celedonio Padilla, Eudo Mejía-Montalvo, Marcelino Suárez-Lazaro, Fabio Antonio Guevara, José Luis Mendoza, Misael Suárez-Estrada, Ingilberto M. Pérez, Martín Florez, Jacinto Ortiz-Quintero, Juan Antonio Almanza-Pacheco, José Carpio-Beltrán and Luis Felipe Álvarez-Polo, in order to avoid irreparable damage to them, in strict conformity with the obligation to respect and guarantee human rights, which it undertook to fufill under Article1(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights. 3. To call upon the State of Colombia to adopt such measures as may be necessary to protect the life and physical safety of Mr. Nilson Zurita in order to avoid irreparable damage to him upon his return to the San Andrés de Sotavento Zenú indigenous community Reserve of San Andrés de Sotavento. 4. To call upon the State of Colombia to investigate the acts denounced which gave rise to these measures, for the purpose of obtaining effective results that would lead to the discovery and punishment of those responsible. 5. To call upon the State of Colombia to continue to submit its reports on the provisional measures taken every two months, starting on the date of notification of this Order, and upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit its comments on those reports within six weeks of its receipt thereof. Hernán Salgado-Pesantes President Antônio A. Cançado Trindade Oliver Jackman Sergio García-Ramírez Máximo Pacheco-Gómez Alirio Abreu-Burelli Carlos Vicente de Roux-Rengifo Manuel E. Ventura-Robles Secretary