15 46. If we really wish to act at the height of the challenges of our times, it is to the consolidation of such jus standi that we ought to promptly devote ourselves, with the same clear vision and lucid boldness with which the draftsmen of the American Convention originally conceived the right of individual petition. With the conventional basis which was conveyed to us by Article 44 of the American Convention, we do not need to wait half a century to give concrete expression to the jus standi above referred to. With the consolidation of this latter, it is the international protection that, ultimately, in the ambit of our regional system of protection, will have thereby attained its maturity. Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Judge Manuel E. Ventura-Robles Secretary