91 261. The Commission requested that the State be ordered to take the necessary measures to “acknowledge its international responsibility for the denounced acts in the case” and proposed “the carrying out of a public act and to make amends to the victim and her relatives, […] aimed at recovering historic memory.” Additionally, the Commission requested in its final arguments: a) the holding of certain acts of symbolic importance that guarantee the non-repetition of the crimes committed in the present case, and b) acts that can only be determined with negotiations between the petitioners and the State, such as a day for the yearly celebration in commemoration and memory of the victims of the “de facto government.” 262. In the same sense, the representatives requested that the Court order the State to carry out a public act of acknowledgment of responsibility at the SID’s headquarters, wherein the highest authority –representing the State-, refer to the facts in the present case and to the human rights violations that took place during the authoritarian era of the recent past, making the “relevant parts” of this Judgment known, and expressly recognizing the responsibility of the Republic of Uruguay for its participation in Operation Condor, […] and offering an apology to the next of kin of María Claudia García.” They added that “[s]uch event must be disseminated by a public media source of wide national coverage, and during a peak hours so as to reach the highest audience volume,” and the next of kin of the victims should agree upon the modality of fulfillment, ensuring their participation. 263. Likewise, the representatives requested a) ordering the State to “[p]lace a memorial plaque in the chamber where María Claudia García de Gelman was illegally detained together with her daughter, including some information regarding the persons who were held there, having previously obtained their consent, and public access to this room must be guaranteed, and b) that SID’s headquarters, where the Center for National Advanced Studies for education in the Military is currently in operation, “be used for functional purposes related to State policies on human rights.” 264. The State indicated that on “May 21, 2009, the Mayor of Montevideo awarded a title of distinguished visiting citizens to 11 young Uruguayans and Argentines, victims of the dictatorships of both countries,” whom among them stood María Macarena Gelman, and stated that “this honorary recognition made by the Government of Montevideo, was intended to strengthen the memory of the society and to contribute to her and her parent’s reparation, as well as that of all victims of grave violations of human rights in the recent past.” Likewise, the State emphasized that the Executive declared the project of a Memorial in Remembrance of the Detained-Disappeared of national interest, which was erected in the Vaz Ferreira Park, in the Cerro of Montevideo. Concerning the memorial plaque, the State indicated that “the Executive assumes the commitment to guarantee public access to the section of SID where María Claudia and Macarena were detained and to place a memorial plaque in said location.” 265. In former occasions, the Court has favorably valued those acts carried out by the State that have an effect on the recovery of the memory of the victims, the recognition of their dignity, and consolation of their relatives, 317 such as those mentioned in the foregoing paragraph.                                                          317 Cf. Case of Masacre de Pueblo Bello, supra note 146, para. 254; Case of Manuel Cepeda Vargas, supra note 11, para. 223, and Case of Ibsen Cárdenas and Ibsen Peña, supra note 9, para. 248.

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