9 Criminalistic Investigation Division of the Attorney General’s Office will be assigned” to the case. In addition, Guatemala stated that “training courses are being implemented through the [...] Attorney General’s Office, with the participation of other governmental and non-governmental organizations.” Finally, “investigation strategies and plans […] to ensure that the investigation is effective” are reportedly being devised. 27. That the representatives pointed out that the information provided by the State “refers to future plans [...], but does not include [any] specific step that [has already been taken and] will effectively help bring [...] justice.” 28. That, according to the Judgment, the duty of the State to adopt specific measures to improve its investigative capacity entails providing the organizations involved in the prevention and investigation of extrajudicial executions with sufficient human, financial, logistical and scientific resources to ensure proper processing of all the evidence, scientific or otherwise, for the purpose of solving crimes. Said processing must conform to relevant applicable international standards, such as those set out in the United Nations Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions. 29. That the Court appreciates the training activities that the Attorney General’s Office is planning. However, the information before the Court does not demonstrate that they have already been put in place or that they conform to the Judgment. Therefore, the State is required to provide more information. * * * 30. That, with regard to the obligation to hold a public ceremony acknowledging its responsibility (fourth operative paragraph of the Judgment), the State informed the Court that “they were awaiting a date to be set by the President of the Republic of Guatemala in order to comply with this obligation.” The State added that they intended to hold a “public ceremony to pay tribute to the work and courage of Abraham García as a prosecutor in the investigation into the murder of Jorge Carpio” and that “the Attorney General’s Office has been requested to provide information regarding his employment record.” 31. That the representatives requested the Court to order the State that the organization of the public ceremony “be previously coordinated with the beneficiaries so that they are able to participate in the coordination as well as in the ceremony itself” and that, in addition, as ordered in the Judgment, “tribute be paid to police commissioner Cesar Augusto Medina Mateo, who was murdered, as well as to the then prosecutor Abraham Méndez García.” 32. That the Commission stated that the Judgment specified a period of six months for the State to comply with this order. It also stated that “while it is important that the highest authority of the Guatemalan State is willing to host the ceremony of public acknowledgment of responsibility, the fact that said authority is the one who will host the ceremony [...] cannot operate to delay the ceremony, [given that] as time goes by [this type of measures] begin to lose significance. 33. That the Court would like to remind the State of the importance of complying with this measure of reparation given its true symbolic value, as a measure of satisfaction and as a safeguard against the recurrence of incidents such as the ones

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