5 g) that the Ministry of the Interior stated that it had issued funds to cover “transportation and humanitarian aid expenditures” concerning Ms. Astrid Eugenia Manrique, a member of the ASFADDES branch office in Popayán. 14. The brief with the observations of the Inter-American Commission of November 10, 2000, whereby it stated: a) that no information is available to date concerning the whereabouts of Mr. Ángel Quintero and Ms. Claudia Monsalve, and “that the measures thus far initiated by the Illustrious Government have not been adequate.” On the initiative of members of ASFADDES and the human rights organizations, on October 23, 2000, a meeting was held in Medellín with the Director of the Presidential Human Rights Program under the Office of the Vice President, to “evaluate the operations carried out towards the search for disappeared persons.” This meeting was attended by the Deputy Director of the Metropolitan Police, the person in charge of human rights at the DAS, a delegate of the Ombudsman, and “the prosecutor.” The latter is making arrangements for an urgent search in accordance with Law 589; however, the necessary resources to back up the measures required by the prosecutor are not available. The Office of the Vice President and the Ministry of the Interior pointed out that they would make arrangements to obtain said resources. The day before the submission of the Commission’s observations, the petitioners informed that they had no news concerning the arrangements that would have been made; b) that, despite the fact that the Court has ordered the protection of the ASFADDES branch offices, “only a few physical elements for protection of the infrastructure, which are insufficient to protect the members thereof” have been available to them to date; Ms. Rocío Campos even had to move to another place as a consequence of continuous threats; c) that the State did not refer, in its report, to the situation of Silvia Quintero, Gloria Herney-Galíndez, Gladys Ávila, and Rocío Bautista, of the branch offices of Medellín and Bogotá; d) that the State mentioned evaluations of the Committee on Risks of the Ministry of the Interior concerning five persons who are not members of ASFADDES and who are not protected by the Provisional measures; e) With respect to the Popayán office the petitioners pointed out, on the one hand, that humanitarian aid was given to Astrid Manrique, and, on the other, that, despite the fact that, at the meeting of the “Follow-up Committee” of September 5, 2000, they requested the National Police to clarify why “police officials had been recording on film or video the members” of said branch office, this request had been ignored; and f) with respect to the investigation of the events that occurred at the branch office of Barrancabermeja it highlighted, on the one hand, that, despite the fact that the material, technical and human resources necessary for an effective investigation had been requested during the meeting of the “Follow-up Committee” on September 5, 2000, at the seminar held on the following September 30 the members of ASFADDES of Barrancabermeja were the target of threats and the State “has not submitted information on the