8 of a party or on its own motion, order whatever provisional measures it deems appropriate, pursuant to Article 63(2) of the Convention. 4. That the aforementioned Orders of the President of June 29, July 13, and July 22, 1998, were issued in conformity with the provisions of the Convention and the Rules of Procedure and the information presented in the matter. 5. That, even though the Commission has not completed its consideration of Cases 11.814, 11.815, 11.854, 11.855, 11.857, 12.021, 11.816, and 11.840, it has advised the Court that “[i]n each case the petitioner made a prima facie case alleging that the State violated one or more articles of the American Convention to the detriment of the defendant”. 6. That the Cases included in the Request have not yet been submitted to the Court and the consideration of the issues at hand is, therefore, based not upon the merits of said Cases but upon the State’s procedural obligations as a Party to the American Convention. Therefore, the Court cannot, in a provisional measure, consider the merits of any arguments pertaining to issues other than those which relate strictly to the extreme gravity and urgency and the necessity to avoid irreparable damage to persons. Such other issues are properly brought before the Court only through contentious cases or requests for advisory opinions. 7. That the States Parties to the Convention should fully comply in good faith (pacta sunt servanda) to all of the provisions of the Convention, including those relative to the operation of the two supervisory organs; and, that in view of the Convention’s fundamental objective of guaranteeing the effective protection of human rights (Articles 1(1), 2, 51 and 63(2)), States Parties must not take any action that may frustrate the restitutio in integrum of the rights of the alleged victims. 8. That Article 29 of the American Convention provides that: [n]o provision of this Convention shall be interpreted as: a. permitting any State Party, group, or person to suppress the enjoyment or exercise of the rights and freedoms recognized in this Convention or to restrict them to a greater extent than is provided for herein. 9. That, should the State execute the alleged victims, it would create an irremediable situation incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention, would amount to a disavowal of the authority of the Commission, and would adversely affect the very essence of the Inter-American system. 10. That the function of the supervisory organs of the American Convention is to ensure that the provisions of the American Convention are observed and adequately applied by States in their domestic laws, and not, as Trinidad and Tobago has argued, to ensure that State Parties comply with their own domestic laws. 11. That the continuance of the stays of execution in the present matters is aimed at ensuring that the State Party faithfully observes its obligations under the Convention.