2 14. The State shall pay the amounts established in this Judgment for pecuniary damages, non pecuniary damages, and reimbursement of costs and expenses within one year of notification of this judgment, to the persons indicated in paragraphs 159 and 160 and in the manner stipulated in paragraphs 161, 171, 172, 174, 177, 180 to 183, 205 and 206 to 209 hereof. […] 15. It shall monitor full compliance with this Judgment and close the instant case when the State has fully complied with all its provisions. Within one year of notification of this Judgment, the State shall provide the Court with a report on the measures taken to comply with it, in the terms of paragraph 210 of this judgment. 2. The Interpretation of the Judgment on preliminary objection, merits, reparations and costs issued by the Inter-American Court on January 28, 2008. 3. The note of the Inter-American Court’s Secretariat (hereinafter “the Secretariat”) of November 20, 2008, wherein, pursuant to instructions from the Court’s President, the Republic of Perú (hereinafter “the State” or “Perú”) was reminded that, under operative paragraph No. 15 of the Judgment and since such Judgment was notified on August 3, 2007, the term within which to submit the first compliance report expired on August 3, 2008, and that such report had not been received by the Tribunal within such term. Therefore, the State was requested to submit the report as soon as possible. 4. The communication of January 15, 2009 and its annex, whereby the State reported that “Delia Muñoz-Muñoz, Esq., Specialized Supranational Public Prosecutor, has been appointed as Official Attorney for the Perúvian State in all proceedings before that […] Court”. Pursuant to supreme resolution No. 008-2009-JUS, such appointment was made within the framework of the State Legal Defense System, created “with the aim to strengthen, unify and modernize the legal defense of the State at a […] supranational and international level”. 5. The Secretariat’s note of February 2, 2009, whereby the State was once again requested to submit its first compliance report, since “the term within which to do so expired six months ago” and the term was extended to February 16, 2009. CONSIDERING: 1. That monitoring compliance with its decisions is an inherent jurisdictional power of the Court. 2. That Perú has been a State Party to the American Convention since July 28, 1978 and acknowledged the binding jurisdiction of the Court on January 21, 1981. 3. That Article 68(1) of the American Convention sets forth that “[t]he States Parties to the Convention undertake to comply with the judgment of the Court in any