14 c. The State, through the National Agrarian Institute, must conduct a more diligent search for a property where the compensated families may relocate to, and also, through the competent institutions, all efforts must be made to support the right to housing, health, education, water and of other benefits to ensure appropriate conditions of the relocated population and that once and for all the community of Punta Piedra may be able to exercise its right to ownership over the areas being 47 claimed. 65. As a follow up to the agreement, on February 21, 2002, OFRANEH requested from the Minister Director of the INA an assessment of the improvements to the town of Rio Miel, “in order to 48 establish mechanisms to attain approval of a budget amount for the respective compensation.” 66. According to the State, the “INA, for the purpose of settling the issue raised between the Punta Piedra community and the Village of Rio Miel, conducted an assessment of the improvements made by the ladino occupants, which yielded the amount of Thirteen million, one hundred and sixty-eight 49 thousand, nine hundred and eighty-two lempiras with eighty-four cents (Lps.13,168,982.84).” 67. Consequently, the Punta Piedra Community filed a request with the Congress of the Republic to adopt the required budget item for the INA. Edito Suazo Avila, the President of the Community Civic Association of Punta Piedra stated at the public hearing before the IACHR: “[…] after everything that had happened we went to the INA office where they claimed to us that they didn’t have any money to solve the problem. We met with the people and decided to hold a march on the capital to ask the Presdient to pay for all of the errors that had been committed. We asked the government to make the problem right, the Congress agreed to deliver the money …” 50 . 68. On April 18, 2002, a group of Deputies introduced a motion before the National Congress for the approval of a budget item in the “2012 General Budget of Revenue and Expenditures of the Republic” for the INA to proceed to payments of compensation to clear the title to the land claimed by the 51 Punta Piedra Community. In the motion, the following is set forth: […] Whereas, for the indigenous peoples, the concept of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity is not just an empty concept, much less a commercial one. These concepts, to indigenous peoples, are closely tied to spirituality and respect for mother earth. Life, territory, knowledge and collective rights are inseparable. Article 8 of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) recognizes this fundamental principle. Whereas, the Honduran State in May 1994 ratified International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 169, international legal instrument that recognizes the collective rights of the indigenous and tribal peoples of the world. 47 Anexo 7. Commitment agreement of December 13, 2001. Annex to the initial petition, received by the IACHR on October 29, 2003. 48 Annex 9. Letter sent by OFRANEH to the Minister Director of the INA dated February 21, 2002. Annex to the initial petition dated October 27, 2003, received by the IACHR on October 29, 2003. 49 Submission of observations on the merits from the State dated October 13, 2010, reveived by the IACHR on the same date. 50 IACHR, Public Hearing dated March 7, 2006 in re “Petition 1119/03 – Garífuna Community of Punta Piedra, Honduras”, 124 regular session of the IACHR, Testimony of Edito Suazo Avila. th 51 Annex 1. Motion sponsored by Deputies Olegario López Róchez, Erick Mauricio Rodríguez, Samuel Martínez, Jorge Leonídas García, among others and introduced on April 18, 2002 before the National Congress. Annex to the initial petition dated October 27, 2003, received by IACHR on October 29, 2003, and Annex to submission of observations on the merits from the State dated October 13, 2010, received by the IACHR on the same date.