17 through the Lhaka Honhat Association, submitted a high number of communications, letters and requests to different authorities of the Provincial Government of Salta, seeking the materialization of the promises of formalizing the communal property of their ancestral territory. 62. When the petition was submitted to the IACHR in 1998, the Government’s promises and 62 Decrees regarding the adjudication of the ancestral lands were still unfulfilled. Consequently, in the initial 1998 petition to the IACHR, the petitioners asserted that “for over one decade now, we have persistently fought to obtain recognition of the title that places us as owners in a communal manner of Fiscal Lots 14 and 55. This communal demand is just and legitimate. In this sense, we have carried out countless actions since our country returned to democracy in 1983, obtaining in response promises that 63 to this day continue to be only that: promises.” 63. The Public Ombudsman of the Republic of Argentina sent to the IACHR, in January 2001, copies of some administrative dossiers of the procedures conducted by his office, which include copies of eighteen communications sent between 1996 and 1998 to the Governor of the Province of Salta, to the Director of the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs, the Minister of Government or the 64 President of the Republic, among other high public officials. Second phase of the indigenous territorial claim: the Provincial Government’s will to parcel Fiscal Lots 55 and 14, and the indigenous opposition (1999-2005), in parallel with the negotiations before the IACHR. 64. In August 1998, the petition was presented to the IACHR. Between 1999 and 2005, representatives of the petitioners, the National Government and the Provincial Government took an active part in friendly settlement efforts before the IACHR. During this process, the authorities of the National and Provincial Government adopted a series of parallel decisions that affected the territorial rights of the indigenous communities that inhabit the Fiscal Lots. 65. On November 2, 1999, the General Secretariat of the Salta Governor’s Office issued Resolution 423/99, in which it ordered the publication of edicts for 15 days in the Official Gazette and the El Tribuno Newspaper, summoning all those asserting rights over any piece of land within Fiscal Lot 55, 65 because certain adjudications of said lands to their registered inhabitants were going to be made. On November 8, 1999, the Government of the Province of Salta published such Edict. 66. After the publication of the Edict, on November 24, 1999, the representatives of the Lhaka Honhat Association wrote to the Government of the Province of Salta – General Secretariat of the Governor’s Office about the ongoing procedure before the IACHR, and noting that the Edict could trigger the international responsibility of the State of Argentina, in case irreparable harm was caused to the 66 territory that was the object of the controversy . 67. The representatives of the Lhaka Honhat Association filed an administrative request for 67 revocation of Resolution 423/99, which ordered the publication of the edicts, on the grounds of invalidity. This request was rejected on December 20, 1999, through Resolution No. 500/99 of the General 62 Initial petition, received by the IACHR on August 4, 1998, and transmitted to the State on January 26, 1999. 63 Initial petition, received by the IACHR on August 4, 1998, and transmitted to the State on January 26, 1999. 64 Documents sent to the IACHR by the Public Ombudsman, received on January 19, 2001, and transmitted to the State by the IACHR through note of February 16, 2001. 65 The petitioners provided a copy of this Resolution to the IACHR through note of July 17, 2000, transmitted to the State on August 2, 2000. 66 The petitioners provided a copy of this letter to the IACHR, through notes received on January 10, 2000 –transmitted to the State on February 18, 2000- and July 17, 2000 –transmitted to the State on August 2, 2000-. 67 The petitioners provided a copy of this request to the IACHR through note received on July 17, 2000, and transmitted to the State by the IACHR on August 2, 2000.