10 obligation established in the Court’s judgment” (supra Having Seen 3(a) and 3(d)); and h) concerning reimbursement of costs and expenses, “the State has partially complied with this measure of reparation ordered by the Court; it has not yet paid the costs and expenses owed to CEJIL”. “[O]n May 19, 2004, [... an] attorney from CEJIL delivered to the Deputy Minister of Justice the documents verifying the organization’s legal personality [...] and the power of attorney that the Executive Director [...] had given her authorizing her to receive the payment ordered by the Court [...]. Subsequently, by communication MP-VMJ No. 545/04 dated May 24, 2004, Bolivia informed CEJIL […] that the [aforementioned attorney’s] credentials were not sufficient to discharge the obligation in question until such time as the pertinent legal procedures are followed”, in accordance with the law on the foreign service and consular regulations. The representatives are of the view that this obligation can be acquitted by handing over a check made out to the institution’s name, “which can be done through the embassies of Bolivia in either the United States or Costa Rica,” “without the formalities that the Bolivian State is demanding.” 17. The November 9, 2004 brief and its attachment, where the Inter-American Commission submitted its comments on the State’s report of August 23, 2004, and the State’s brief of June 3, 2004, and its two briefs of September 17, 2004 (supra Having Seen 4, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 15). The Commission wrote the following: a) with regard to compliance with the State’s obligation to use every means necessary to locate the victim’s mortal remains and deliver them to his next of kin, the State “did not report –as the Court had requested- on the concrete measures taken to locate Mr. Trujillo Oroza’s mortal remains.” The creation of the Inter-institutional Council is an important step in the general picture, but its activities will only be instrumental in locating the victim’s mortal remains if such a Council actually engages in concrete measures. “Therefore, the main information that the State must provide must focus on the measures that the Bolivian Attorney General’s Office is taking. [... The Bolivian State must show that its government –the cabinet ministries, the judiciary and the public ministry- are taking concrete measures to locate the remains of Mr. Trujillo Oroza”; b) concerning the criminalization of forced disappearance, the Commission felt it was “significant that the Bolivian State should send a copy of a bill now pending before Congress, describe where it is in the legislative process and the amendments or changes that might be made to the original version of the bill that it sent to the Court.” The State must comply with this measure within a “reasonable period”. The Commission asked that the Court call upon the State to present specific information taking it “step by step through the process that a bill for a new criminal law of this type must undergo in Bolivia” and on “the time that each stage in that process usually takes”; c) concerning the investigation, identification and punishment of those responsible for the wrongful acts to which this case refers, the Commission noted that the representatives had expressed concern over the constant turnover in judges and had indicated how gratified they were that a

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