interested party to take further procedural measures. Lastly, in the circumstances of the instant case, the Court finds it pertinent that the State adopt, if possible, additional measures and appropriate mechanisms to make diligent progress in the investigation of the facts, as indicated in paragraph 186 of the Judgment.11 Based on the foregoing considerations, the Court finds it necessary that El Salvador forward complete, detailed and updated information on the proceedings and measures taken in the context of the investigations into the facts of this case, including copies of the main proceedings, that reveal the status and the progress made in the investigations. b) Obligation to conduct, as soon as possible, a genuine search, in which it makes every effort to determine the whereabouts of Serapio Cristian Contreras, Julia Inés Contreras, Ana Julia Mejía Ramírez, Carmelina Mejía Ramírez and José Rubén Rivera Rivera (third operative paragraph of the Judgment) 13. The State advised that, at that time, it had confirmation that two of the victims of the case, the youths José Rubén Rivera Rivera and Serapio Cristian Contreras, had been found. With regard to José Rubén Rivera Rivera, the State indicated that, owing to the measures taken by the National Commission for the Search for Children Disappeared during the Internal Armed Conflict12 (hereinafter “the National Search Commission”), in March 2012, confirmation had been received that he was living in the United States of America. However, his current identity – assigned by his adoptive family – and his address would be kept confidential at his request. At the present time, efforts based on a psychosocial approach are being made with the biological family and with José Rubén Rivera Rivera in order to prepare them for a possible reunion, and El Salvador was facilitating the necessary migratory procedures. As part of the said measures, it had offered collaboration with advice on legal aspects through one of its offices abroad; the victim had been issued with a Salvadoran passport on April 28, 2012, under a rapid procedure and without any cost to him, and the victim had been informed that the costs of his travel to El Salvador would be covered by the State. However, the State was unable to intervene in any way in the migratory situation of José Rubén Rivera Rivera in the country were he currently resides, and he himself had expressed his wish to take all necessary steps for his return through his own lawyer. In addition, an offer had been made to the victim to obtain psychological support in his country of residence, since he lived outside El Salvador. Regarding the investigation that led to finding him, the State reported that, based on the information concerning the date of his alleged forced disappearance, the victim was linked to a case examined by the National Search Commission in October 2011, and, in this way, it was 11 According to paragraph 186 of the Judgment, the Court found it pertinent that the State adopt measures such as: (a) establish coordination mechanisms between the different State bodies and institutions with the powers to investigate, and mechanisms to monitor the cases being processed for the forced disappearance of children during the armed conflict; to this end, a database on the matter must be set up and kept updated in order to ensure the most coherent and effective investigations; (b) elaborate protocols for procedures in this matter with an interdisciplinary approach and train the officials involved in the investigation of serious human rights violations so that they are able to use the available legal, technical and scientific elements; (c) promote pertinent actions of international cooperation with other States in order to facilitate the collection and exchange of information, as well as and other necessary legal actions, and (d) Ensure that the different bodies of the justice system involved in the case have the human, financial, logistic, scientific and other resources necessary to perform their tasks adequately, independently and impartially, and adopt the necessary measures to guarantee that judicial, prosecutorial and investigative officials and other agents of justice have an adequate security and protection system, which takes into account the circumstances of the cases for which they are responsible and the place where they work, and allows them to perform their functions with due diligence, and to protect witnesses, victims and next of kin. 12 According to information provided by the State, the President of the Republic of El Salvador created this Committee by Executive Decree No. 5 of January 15, 2010, published in Official Gazette No. 11, Volume 386, of January 18, 2010. 6