conditions, the petitioners asked the Commission to grant precautionary measures. 38. The petitioners reiterated their request for precautionary measures to the IACHR on January 10, 2000. Those measures would have required the provincial government: 1) to interrupt the work begun and block the forestry operations under way; 2) to abstain from undertaking any further works in the lands covered by the complaint; 3) not to deliver dwellings in individual ownership to members of the communities represented by the Association; and 4) to abstain from delivering title to the lands in question, either individually to indigenous people, or to criollos. 39. On September 25, 2000, the petitioners again asked the Commission to adopt precautionary measures in light of the events cited in previous requests, and new events. They claimed that the works were continuing and moreover, in the last three months, trees were being felled in the region, despite the express prohibition contained in Decree 2609 issued by the Provincial Executive. The petitioners asked for orders: 1) to interrupt the work begun and to block the forestry operations under way; 2) to abstain from undertaking any further works in the lands covered by the complaint; 3) not to deliver dwellings in individual ownership to members of the communities represented by the Association; and 4) to abstain from delivering title to the lands in question, either individually to indigenous people, or to criollos. 40. The petitioners and the State initiated the friendly settlement procedure on November 1, 2000 in Buenos Aires in the presence of the IACHR Rapporteur for Argentina. During that meeting, the petitioners declared it their aim to have a single title of community ownership issued for the lands on which they were dwelling, and to have a social and environmental impact report prepared, as well as the corresponding consultation with the communities on the road works that had been launched on indigenous territory. This procedure was pursued until July 2005, when the petitioners advised the Commission of their intention to terminate it. 41. Throughout the friendly settlement procedure before the IACHR, the petitioners repeatedly insisted that the granting of title to the lands in fiscal lots 14 and 55 in the name of the indigenous communities must respect the following principles: 1. on The principle of a territory under a single title, based the agreement entered into by the indigenous