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123. Besides presenting various reports in the context of the unregulated
monitoring procedure, the State requested three meeting between its
representatives and members of the Court, which the latter agreed to and delegated
its President and Vice President or the Secretariat to attend. These meetings were
held at the seat of the Court, as follows:
a)
On February 25, 2002, at 8:30 a.m., a meeting was held between the
President and Vice President of the Court; two Secretariat officials, and the
following representatives of the State: Ambassador Virginia Burgoa Solanas,
Embassy of Panama in Costa Rica; Ambassador Alfredo Castillero Hoyos,
Director General of Foreign Policy of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of
Panama; Jaime Moreno, Vice Minister of Labor of Panama; Eduardo Quiroz,
Vice Minister of Economy and Finance of Panama; Luis Enrique Martínez Cruz,
Counselor of the Embassy of Panama in Costa Rica, and Doris Sosa de
González, Attaché of the Embassy of Panama in Costa Rica. On this occasion,
the representatives of the State manifested, inter alia, their willingness to
comply with the judgment issued by the Court and provided information on
the measures taken to comply with the judgment. At the request of the
President, the Secretariat gave the State officials a detailed explanation of the
procedure applied to monitor compliance with the Court’s decisions;
b)
On June 24, 2002, at 11:35 a.m., three Secretariat officials met with
the following representatives of the State: Ambassador Virginia Burgoa
Solanas, Embassy of Panama in Costa Rica, and Luis Enrique Martínez Cruz,
Counselor of the Embassy of Panama in Costa Rica. On that occasion, the
State officials consulted the Secretariat about how to comply with the
judgment in the instant case. The Secretariat officials told them that it could
not “give an opinion on the State’s compliance with the judgment” of
February 2, 2001; and
c)
On February 27, 2003, a delegation of the State visited the Court to
deliver a brief (supra paras. 26 and 53) on compliance with the judgment of
February 2, 2001.
124. Furthermore, Panama not only complied with its obligation to present reports
to the Court and carry out acts that reveal its acknowledgment of the Court’s
monitoring function, but also it never mentioned its disagreement about the meaning
or scope of the judgment delivered in this case; specifically with regard to the
Court’s competence to monitor compliance with this judgment and, accordingly, it
abstained from filing a request for interpretation of judgment.
125. To this end, it should be recalled that according to Article 67 of the
Convention:
The judgment of the Court shall be final and not subject to appeal. In case of
disagreement as to the meaning or scope of the judgment, the Court shall interpret it at
the request of any of the parties, provided the request is made within ninety days from
the date of notification of the judgment.
And in paragraph 213 of the judgment of February 2, 2001, the Court “reserve[d]
the power to supervise the overall compliance with th[e] judgment”, and in the
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