3 4. The briefs submitted on January 17, May 28, June 24, July 19 and September 24, 2008 by means of which the State of Colombia (hereinafter, the "State" or "Colombia") informed on the progress made in complying with said Judgment. 5. The brief submitted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter, the “Commission” or the “Inter-American Commission”) on September 11, 2008 by which the Commission made observations to the State’s reports. 6. The Secretariat's notes of September 18 and 26 and of October 17, 2008 by means of which it informed the parties that the term for the representatives to submit their observations to the State's report of May 28, 2008 expired on July 25, 2008 and that the Secretariat has still not received such observations. Therefore, following the instructions of the Court’s President, the representatives were requested to forward such observations as soon as possible. 7. The Order issued by the President on November 26, 2008 by which the Commission, the State and the representatives of the victims’ next-of-kin and of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures were convened to a private hearing to be held at the seat of the Court on January 20, 2009. The purpose of the hearing was for the Court to obtain information from the State on the compliance with the Judgment, listen to the comments of the Inter- American Commission and the representatives in relation to the latter and accept information on the implementation and effectiveness of the provisional measures, as well as the request to rescind them presented by the State. 8. The brief of December 3, 2008 by means of which the State requested the Tribunal, among other things, to urge the Inter-American Commission and the representatives to forward the corresponding observations as soon as practicable and, in any event, before the hearing convened. 9. The Secretariat’s note of December 11, 2008 by which it was mentioned that said hearing was convened precisely to obtain information on the compliance with the Judgment and the implementation of the provisional measures. Nevertheless, on the President’s instructions, for the purposes of a more efficient development of the hearing, the representatives and the Commission were requested to forward, in writing, the observations to the State’s reports that were pending, no later than January 9, 2009. Said observations were not received. 10. The private hearing held on January 20, 2009 during the LXXXII Period of Ordinary Sessions of the Tribunal at its seat 1, as well as the documentation received at said hearing. 1 The following people participated in the hearing: on behalf of the Colombian State, Luz Marina Gil, Executive Director of the Military Criminal Courts, Ministry of National Defense; Ángela Margarita Rey, Director of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, of the Ministry of Foreing Affairs ; Carlos Franco, Director of the Presidential Program on Human Rights; Fernando Arévalo; Director of Legal Defense of the Nation, Ministry of Interior and Justice; Francisco Javier Echeverri Lara, Director of International Affairs of the Solicitor General’s Office; Sandra Janeth Castro Ospina, Coordinator of the Human Rights Unit of the Solicitor General’s Office; Colonel Juan Carlos Gómez, Human Rights Director, Ministry of National Defense; Colonel Efraín Oswaldo Aragón, Human Rights Coordinator, National Police; Gloria Beatriz Gaviria; Human Rights Coordinator, Ministry of Social Protection; Juana Acosta López, Coordinator of the Interinstitutional Operative Group, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Miguel Soto, Coordinator of the Information, Precautionary and Provisional Measures Area , Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Santiago