-18- effect, the State should ensure the release of funds in order to establish an operating budget for the use of the implementation committee in its process of administration and planning. In particular, the participation of the victims’ representative in the decision-making process of said committee should not be hindered by the lack of such operative budget, which shall cover all expenses of the members of the implementation committee when acting in their official capacities, regardless of their membership in organizations which have been granted compensation for costs in other parts of the Court’s Judgment. Also, the State should ensure that the Moiwana community benefit from the accrued interests on the funds awarded. * * * 19. The State informed that it has made payments as compensation for material and moral damages (supra Having Seen paragraph 10 (c)), although the documents provided do not contain the names of the individuals to whom the payments have been made, nor the list of all the payments that have been made in complying with this order. However, the Representatives have expressed that the victims have received the compensation ordered by the Court (supra Having Seen paragraph 11 (b)). The Court therefore considers that the State has fully complied with Operative Paragraphs 8 and 9 of the Judgment. * * * 20. The State has asserted it completed payments for costs to the Forest Peoples Programme on December 15, 2006, and to Association Moiwana on January 15, 2007 (supra Having Seen paragraph 10b)). The Court notes that no clear information has been provided regarding the payment for costs corresponding to the organization Moiwana ’86. However, the Representatives confirmed that “awards of costs have been disbursed and received” (supra Having Seen paragraph 11 (b)) and the Commission therefore considered that the State has fully complied with this aspect of the Judgment. The Tribunal considers that Suriname has complied with Operative Paragraph 10 of the Judgment. NOW THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, By virtue of its authority to monitor compliance with its own decisions and pursuant to the provisions of Articles 33, 62(1), 62(3), 67, and 68(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights, Articles 25(1) and 30 of the Statute of the Court, and Article 29(2) of its Rules of Procedure, DECLARES, 1. That, in accordance with the consideration found in Whereas paragraph 9, the State has fully complied with the Operative Paragraph 6 of the Judgment on

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