4 request of the Commission. 3. That the Court has examined the circumstances and facts that motivated the Order of the President of May 31, 1997, which this Court upholds, deeming it lawful and consistent with the merit of the proceedings. 4. That the Court observes that although the State reports that it has arranged with the local authorities to effect the expansion on behalf of the persons named in the Order of the President, the names of Juan Mendoza-Sánchez and Julia Gabriel-Simón do not appear among those persons on behalf of whom the State indicates that it has taken action. 5. That in its brief of June 23, 1997, the State declared that it "has no objection to the expansion of provisional measures requested by the Inter-American Commission ..." NOW, THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, in compliance with Article 63(2) of the American Convention and Articles 25(1) and 25(2) of its Rules of Procedure, DECIDES: 1. To ratify the Order of the President of May 31, 1997. 2. To call upon the State of Guatemala to expand the measures adopted in this Case for the purpose of ensuring the right to life and physical integrity of Andrés Ramos-Godínez, Rafael Vásquez-Simón, Juan Mendoza-Sánchez, Julia Gabriel-Simón, Miguel MoralesMendoza, Lucía Quila-Colo, and Fermina López-Castro. 3. To call upon the State of Guatemala to investigate the facts denounced by the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights and punish those responsible. 4. To call upon the State of Guatemala to continue to report every two months on the provisional measures in this case, and, specifically, on any measures it may have taken on behalf of Juan Mendoza-Sánchez and Julia Gabriel-Simón. 5. To call upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to submit its observations on that information to the Court within a period not exceeding six weeks from the date of its receipt. Hernán Salgado-Pesantes President Antônio A. Cançado Trindade Máximo Pacheco-Gómez Héctor Fix-Zamudio Oliver Jackman