4 mentioned in the operative part of the draft resolution by the Commission on Juridical and Political Affairs or by the Permanent Council of the Organization, the Court asked the General Secretariat to call this note to the attention of “the authorities of the Twenty-ninth Regular Session of the General Assembly of the OAS.” The President of the Court, presenting the Annual Report to the Permanent Council of the OAS, placed on the record the failure by the state of Trinidad and Tobago to abide by various resolutions of the Court concerning provisional measures in the Case of James et al. currently pending before the InterAmerican Commission. The state executed Mr. Joey Ramiah on June 4, 1999 and Mr. Anthony Briggs on July 28, 1999. Both had been targeted by Court-ordered provisional measures.4 In the previous 1998 Report, given the lack of cooperation by the State as to the enforcement of the provisional measures mentioned hereinbefore in the cases of Hilaire, Constantine, Benjamin et al., the Court had to inform the OAS General Assembly of the following: On May 22, 1998, the Inter-American Commission; according to article 63(2) of the American Convention and Article 25 of the Court Rule, presented a request to the Court for the adoption of provisional measures on behalf of five persons who are subject to the jurisdiction of the State of Trinidad and Tobago (Wenceslaus James, Anthony Briggs, Anderson Noel, Anthony Garcia and Christopher Bethel). These cases are under the consideration of the Inter-American Commission. On June 14, 1998, the Court ratified the May 27, 1998, Order of the President, in which he had adopted urgent measures in order to preserve the life of the above-mentioned persons, since their execution would render purposeless any decision issued by the Tribunal on them. Later, the Commission presented three requests for the expansion of the measures adopted in this case. By Orders of June 29, July 13, and July 22, 1998, issued on behalf of Darrin Roger Thomas, Haniff Hilaire and Denny Baptiste, respectively, the President called upon the State to adopt the measures necessary to preserve the life and personal integrity of said persons. The Court summoned the State of Trinidad and Tobago and the Inter-American Commission to a public hearing at its seat on August 28, 1998. On August 11 and 27, 1998, the State of Trinidad and Tobago informed the Court that it will decline the summons, and will not accept any responsibility for the consequences which ensue from the failure of the Inter-American Commission to organize its proceedings so as to ensure that cases submitted to it by those under sentence of death are processed, heard and determined within the time periods required under the municipal law of Trinidad and Tobago. On August 19, 1998, the President of the Court sent a note to the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago in which he communicated the Tribunal’s concern in regard to the States declination of the Court’s summons to appear at the public hearing. 4 I/A Court H.R. 1999 Annual Report of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, OEA/Ser.L/V/III.47 Doc. 6, page. 41.