3 3. The brief of November 17, 2008, by which the Republic of Paraguay (hereinafter, the “State” or “Paraguay”) presented a second brief, requested in operative paragraph two of the Court’s Order of August 6, 2008. 4. The brief of February 17, 2009, whereby the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter, the “Commission” or the "Inter-American Commission") submitted its observations to the second report of the State. 5. The notes of the Secretariat of February 25, May 8 and July 31, 2009, which indicated that the time limit for the representatives to file their observations to the second state report had expired on December 25, 2008, and that they were not received; therefore, following the instructions of the Court’s President, the Secretariat repeated to forward the observations as soon as possible. Said observations were not received. 6. The Order issued by the Tribunal’s President on August 7, 2009, by which it convened the Inter-American Commission, the State and the representatives to a private hearing to be held at the seat of the Court on October 1, 2009, in order for the Tribunal to obtain information from the State on the compliance with the Judgment and to listen to the observations of the Commission and the representatives in that respect. 7. The private hearing on monitoring compliance with the Judgment held on October 1, 2009 during the LXXXIV Period of Ordinary Sessions of the Tribunal at its seat1, as well as the documents presented by the State and the representative of the victims’ next-of-kin during the hearing2. 8. The brief of November 2 2009, by means of which the State of Paraguay forwarded the “timetable of compliance [with the Judgment], dated November 1 of that same year". Upon the expiration of the time limit granted to the Commission and the representatives for the submission of the respective observations to said timetable, the observations have not been received. Considering: 1. That it is an inherent power of the judicial functions of the Court to monitor compliance with its decisions. 1 To this hearing, there appeared, on behalf of the State, Ambassador of the Republic of Paraguay in Costa Rica, Mr. Óscar B. Llanes Torres; Deputy Prosecutor charged with the area of Human Rights, Mr Marco Antonio Alcaraz; Human Rights General Director of the Ministry of Justice and Labor, Mrs. Iris Rojas; Human Rights General Director of the Supreme Court of Justice, Mrs. Nury Montiel Mallada; General Director of the Cabinet of the National Secretary of Childhood and Adolescence, Mrs. Ricardo González Borgne; Attorney of the Treasury of the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Raúl Sapena Giménez; Human Rights Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister Inés Martínez Valinotti; Human Rights Director of the Ministry of Interior, Mrs. Diana Vargas; Deputy Attorney General, Mrs. Lorena Cristaldo; Legal Adviser to the Cabinet of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, Mr. Gustavo Rodríguez; Chief of the Human Rights Unit of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, Mrs. Gladys González; Legal Adviser to the General Directorate of Administration and Finance of the Ministry of Finance Mr. Federico Fabián Gill Ramírez, and Secretary Belén Morra A, responsible ad interim of the “Department of Monitoring Compliance with the Judgments of the Inter-American Court” of the Human Rights Area of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; on behalf of the victims’ representatives, attorney of the Comité de Iglesias para Ayuda de Emergencias, Mr. Rodolfo Aseretto and on behalf of the Inter-American Commission, advisers Karla I. Quintana Osuna and Silvia Serrano. 2 The State presented a report on the aspects pending compliance and it also submitted annexes to confirm the information mentioned. Likewise, the representative submitted a brief containing its observations on the status of compliance with the operative paragraphs pending compliance.