6 15. That as relates to the alleged declaration that the statute of limitations had operated on the criminal action, the Court reminds that in the Judgment it clearly established that: “[t]he State cannot allege any law or provision of its domestic laws to exempt itself from the order of the Court to investigate, and if applicable, to criminally punish those responsible for the extrajudicial execution of Wilmer Zambrano-Vélez, José Miguel Caicedo Cobeña and Segundo Olmedo Caicedo Cobeña.7 16. That according to the foregoing, this Court considers it essential for the State to submit updated, detailed and complete information on the commencement of another investigation in the criminal system and, if it be the case, on the action taken. Additionally and more particularly, that it report on whether steps have been taken in order to identify the possible perpetrators and on whether the abovementioned decision declaring the statute of limitations to have operated has been revoked, as well as on the legal mechanisms through which the next of kin of the victims would have access and would play a part in the criminal proceedings, with respect to all of which the State has not supplied any information. * * * Public act of acknowledgement of responsibility 17. That as concerns the duty of the State to hold a public act of acknowledgment of its responsibility for the extrajudicial execution of the victims and the other violations committed in the instant case (operative paragraph number seven in the Judgment), the State reported that on December 10, 2008 the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, in a address on the national television chain, publicly apologized to the next of kin in the name of the State of Ecuador, among other cases, “in memory of Wilmer Zambrano-Vélez, José Miguel Caicedo Cobeña and Segundo Olmedo Caicedo Cobeña, victims of the extrajudicial execution by the Armed Forces.” Likewise, the State reported it had published on Friday February 29, 2008, through the Procuraduría General del Estado [Office of the General Attorney for the State], a public apology in a fragment of page 4A in the newspaper “El Telégrafo”, the text of which points out that Messrs. Zambrano and Caicedo were executed extrajudicially in March, 1993, because the State unduly applied the State of Emergency concept in violation of the American Convention. Lastly, the State pointed out that the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights produced a documentary film on human rights violations in which, with their consent, testimonies by Johanna Zambrano and Susana Cedeño were included, and it was shown at cinema forums in Guayaquil, Quito and Cuenca and will be shown continuously at national and international human rights festivals. 18. That the representatives indicated that, in the aforementioned broadcast on the national television chain, it was observed that while the Minister apologized mentioning the names of the cases, a list was with the names of the victims in various cases was being scrolled on the screen. Form the foregoing it is concluded that no public act of satisfaction was prepared for the next of kin of the victims in the instant case, in which they would have been able to take part if they so wished and in which high ranking State authorities were not present. 7 Case of Zambrano-Vélez et al. v. Ecuador; supra note 6, para. 148.