2 6. The Order of the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”) dictated on December 3, 2008, through which it was decided to call the parties to a private hearing with the purpose of receiving information about the implementation of the provisional measures. 7. The private hearing was carried out on January 20, 2009, at the seat of the Tribunal.1 In this hearing, the Vice-President of the Tribunal, Judge Diego Garcia-Sayán, informed the State that it had a time period of thirty days, meaning until February 21, 2009, to present the written report in relation to the implementation of the provisional measures and the points that were the object of debate in the private hearing. At the same time, he indicated to the representatives and to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (hereinafter, “the Commission” or “the Inter-American Commission”) that they had an additional time period from the receipt of the State’s report in order to present the observations that they consider pertinent. 8. The brief of February 20, 2009, through which the State presented a report in response to the request made at the end of the private hearing held in this case (Supra Having Seen 7). 9. The brief of March 20, 2009, through which the representatives of the beneficiaries presented their observations to the State’s report, in relation to the implementation of the provisional measures ordered in the present case. 10. The brief of April 22, 2009, through which the Inter-American Commission presented its observations about the situation of the beneficiaries that still reside in Colombia. 11. The brief of May 14, 2009, through which the State submitted updated information about the implementation of the present provisional measures. 12. The brief of June 8, 2009, through which the Commission submitted its observations to the State’s report (Supra Having Seen 11). CONSIDERING: 1. That Colombia is a State Party to the American Convention of Human Rights (hereinafter, “American Convention”) since July 31, 1973, and recognized the contentious jurisdiction of the Court on June 21, 1985. 2. That Article 63(2) of the American Convention establishes that, in cases of “extreme gravity and urgency, and when necessary to avoid irreparable damage to 1 In conformity with Article 6(2) of the Rules, the Court held the private audience with a commission of judges composed of the following judges: Diego García Sayán, Vice-President; Manuel Ventura Robles and Margarette May Macaulay. In this hearing, the following appeared: a) for the Inter-American Commission: Juan Pablo Albán; b) representing the beneficiaries: Rafael Barrios Medinvil, of the Group of Lawyers “José Alvear Restrepo”; Michael Camilleri and Francisco Quintana, of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL); and c) for the State: Carlos Franco, Director of the Presidential Program of Human Rights; Angela Margarita Rey, Director of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Ministry of Foreign Relations; Coronel Efraín Aragón, Coordinator of Human Rights for the National Police; Juana Acosta López, Coordinator of the Institutional Operative Group, Ministry of Foreign Relations; Natalia Salamanca, Advisor to the Board of Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Relations; and, Diana Bravo, Advisor to the Board of Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Relations.