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judgments of the Court were the “exclusive [competence] of the General Assembly
of the Organization of American States” (supra para. 54(a)), this political body would
already have ruled in this respect, and this has not happened. It is not possible to
suppose that, since 1989, the Court has been exercising a function that belongs to
the maximum political body of the OAS and that the latter, knowing this, has
allowed it.
111. A clear example of the position of the OAS General Assembly was its reaction
when, in the 1994 Annual Report,86 the Court stated that it had not received any
official communication from the State regarding compliance with the judgments in
the Aloeboetoe et al. and Gangaram Panday cases, and requested it to urge the
State to provide information on the status of compliance with the judgment on
reparations in the Aloeboetoe et al. case and comply with the judgment of January
21, 1994, in the Gangaram Panday case. As a result of these requests, the OAS
General Assembly adopted the following recommendation with regard to this Annual
Report of the Court:
[…]
3.
To urge the Government […] to inform the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights about compliance with the judgments in the Aloeboetoe et al. and Gangaram
Panday cases.
[…]87.
112. Previously, the Court had applied Article 65 of the Convention in the
Velásquez Rodríguez and Godínez Cruz cases.88 Subsequently, it applied this norm
in the Neira Alegría et al.,89 Castillo Páez, Loayza Tamayo and Castillo Petruzzi et al.
1994, OEA/Ser.L/V/III.31 doc.9, pp. 18 and 19; Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Informe Anual de
la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 1996, OEA/Ser.L/V/III.35 doc.4, p. 27; Inter-American
Court of Human Rights. Informe Anual de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 1997,
OEA/Ser.L/V/III.39 doc.5, pp. 29 and 30; Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Informe Anual de la
Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 1998, OEA/Ser.L/V/III.43 Doc.11, pp. 32-35; Inter-American
Court of Human Rights. Informe Anual de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 1999,
OEA/Ser.L/V/III.47 Doc.6, pp. 37-45; Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Informe Anual de la Corte
Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 2000, OEA/Ser.L/V/III.50 Doc.4, pp. 39-44; Inter-American Court
of Human Rights. Informe Anual de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 2001,
OEA/Ser.L/V/III.54 Doc.4, pp. 46-55; and Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Informe Anual de la
Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 2002, OEA/Ser.L/V/III.57 Doc.5, pp. 21, 25, 26, 32, 35, 45
and 46.
86
Cf. Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Informe Anual de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos
Humanos, 1994, OEA/Ser.L/V/III.31 doc.9, pp. 18 and 19.
87
Cf. AG/RES.1330 (XXV-O/95) of June 9, 1995; and Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Informe Anual de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 1995, OEA/Ser.L/V/III.33 doc.4, p. 15.
88
Cf. Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Informe Anual de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos
Humanos, 1990, OEA/Ser.L/V/III.23 doc.12, pp. 15 and 16.
89
Cf. Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Informe Anual de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos
Humanos, 1997, OEA/Ser.L/V/III.39 doc.5, p. 30.
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