43 b.ii) the State should be ordered to comply with the wishes of the mother of Henry Giovanni Contreras as regards the exhumation of his mortal remains in order to bury them again in an appropriate place that she will determine, an act of overwhelming importance in the life of the family; and b.iii) the State should be ordered to fully comply with the part of the judgment that orders an effective investigation into the facts in order to ensure that violations of this type are not repeated. The State’s arguments 97. On this point, the State indicated that: a) it shares the Commission’s opinion that pecuniary reparation is only one of the aspects that should be considered in an “integral reparation.” Friendly settlements have been undertaken in other cases in which the State has committed itself to take action on four basic points: financial reparation, seeking justice, dignifying the victims and strengthening and promoting the inter-American human rights system. With regard to the Commission’s other proposals, Guatemala would be prepared to examine them and comment on them later; b) with regard to the homage to the victims and exhumation of the body of Henry Giovanni Contreras, it requested the Court to omit these issues from the judgment on reparations and urge the parties to reach an agreement on the appropriate way to satisfy such claims; c) the Government institutions formulated the Plan de Acción a Favor de los Niños, Niñas y Jóvenes de la Calle, in collaboration with non-governmental organizations. It added that it hopes that the executing agency will implement this plan during the current year; and d) it reiterates that the commitment to comply with its obligation to promote and further the investigations to clarify the cases examined by the Court or, when appropriate, redirect those that have already been initiated is of vital importance. The considerations of the Court 98. Although, in its judgment on merits, the Court did not find that Guatemala had violated Article 2 of the Convention, which stipulates that the State is obliged to adopt “such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to” the rights therein recognized, it is clear that this is an obligation that the State must comply with, merely because it has ratified this legal instrument85. Thus, this Court considers that, in accordance with the said Article 2 of the Convention, Guatemala must implement, in its internal legislation, the legislative, administrative or other measures that are necessary to adapt Guatemalan legislation to Article 19 of the Convention, in order to ensure that events such as those under consideration are never repeated. Despite this, the Court cannot establish what such measures should 85 cf. Garrido and Baigorria case. Reparations, supra note 19, para. 68.

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