6 kin. Moreover, these regulations established that medical and/or psychological care should be provided to the interns and former interns who had suffered burns, injuries or harm in any of the fires that had occurred in this establishment, between August 14, 1996, and July 25, 2001. Psychological care to mitigate the physical or mental aftereffects for the interns and former interns and their respective next of kin that could be attributed directly to the fires referred to in the judgment of the Court was also stipulated. Moreover, it was established that medical, psychological and any other assistance would be free of charge, and also that basic available medication would be provided to the interns and former interns of the said Institute who had been victims, and their respective families. Another Resolution was issued setting up an ad hoc Committee for the Physical and Psychological Evaluation and Monitoring of the victims of the fires that occurred in the Institute and their next of kin, within the Ministry of Health. Representatives of different agencies take part in this committee and also the representative of the Tekojojá Foundation; d) Regarding the vocational assistance that the State must provide, and also a program of special education for the former interns of the Institute between August 14, 1996, and July 25, 2001, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to establish an Inter-institutional Working Group, coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the task of uniting all the institutions and civil society organizations involved in the work of complying with the operative paragraphs of the judgment. The following attend the meetings of this working group regularly: representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice and Labor, the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, the National Secretariat for Children and Adolescents, the Ombudsman’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office, the Supreme Court of Justice and the National Congress. Civil society is represented by the victims’ next of kin, representatives of the “Panchito López Victims Association,” and the Tekojojá Foundation. The focus of the meetings has been the establishment of strategies for strict compliance with the decisions of the Court. A partial list of the persons who are already receiving assistance has been drawn up. Lastly, the Working Group has negotiated the issue of credentials to identify the beneficiaries, in order to facilitate medical, psychological and psychiatric services for the victims and their next of kin; e) Regarding the State’s obligation to provide Mrs. Pérez with a place to bury her son, Mario del Pilar Álvarez Pérez, in a cemetery near her residence, it advised that “a place has been reserved for the victim’s remains in the “Cementerio del Este,” one of the main cemeteries in Asunción,” and f) Regarding the pecuniary payments for reparations and other expenses, in February and June 2005, the State had reached agreement with the Ministry of Finance for the payment of this compensation by increasing the budget for the 2005 fiscal year. Moreover, the Attorney General’s Office (Procuraduría General) had issued a favorable opinion on the payment of the compensation. In this context, the budgetary needs for the 2006 fiscal year had already been announced and submitted to the consideration of the National Congress by the Executive Branch, and Congress had initiated the necessary studies for the 2006 General Budget of National Expenditure. The Inter-institutional Group had met with several parliamentarians to request that the pecuniary reparations be included in the 2005 budget and, if this were not possible, that

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