16 would make every effort to ensure that the victims mentioned in the judgments of the Inter-American Court received just compensation. The Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs endeavored to resolve matters pending before the Inter-American Commission and to respond to those decided by the Inter-American Court. The transition Government made sure that Peru acceded to the different treaties designed to ensure the full exercise of human rights and to combat terrorism. The “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” was set up in order to learn the truth about what happened during the years of terrorism. In parallel, another commission began to study the constitutionality of the laws and decree laws promulgated after April 5, 1992. The Lori Berenson case was criticized because she was tried by a military court before the transition Government took office. During his mandate, he did not receive any formal protests from the United States Government or from human rights organizations concerning the trial and conviction of Ms. Berenson Mejía by the civil courts. He recalled that local and international public opinion was able to observe the conditions in which the trial was held, because the court authorized the presence of the press, and the hearings were filmed and broadcast live. b. Testimony of Henry Pease García, President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru By Legislative Resolution No. 009-2000-CR of November 21, 2002, the Congress of the Republic of Peru declared the permanent lack of moral competence of the President at that time, Alberto Fujimori. Consequently, as established in Article 113, paragraph 2, and Article 115 of the Peruvian Constitution, it declared the presidency of the Republic vacant. Since the Vice Presidents had resigned, the President of the Congress at that time, Valentín Paniagua Corazao, assumed the presidency. Law No. 27,600 established the procedure for constitutional reform and the Commission on the Constitution, its Regulations, and Actions on Unconstitutionality was entrusted with preparing a total reform of the Constitution, to be submitted to referendum. Some progress was made on the draft, but work was suspended. However, in the spirit of the reform, it was considered necessary to comply strictly with the provisions of Article 2 of the American Convention, as regards adapting domestic legislation to this treaty. In its report, the said Commission considered, inter alia, with regard to the promotion of human rights, the need to strengthen fundamental rights, the right of all persons to comprehensive reparation for the violation of their fundamental rights attributable to the State, and the right to have recourse to international courts. It also considered giving constitutional rank to the norm establishing the obligation of all State organs to comply with the judgments handed down by the supranational jurisdictional organs. Moreover, in line with the globalization of justice, the draft reform proposed incorporating into the Constitution a norm recognizing the possibility of acceding to treaties that granted supranational jurisdiction to human rights bodies, and those monitoring international crimes, corruption and terrorism. With regard to the review of legislation on the crimes of terrorism and treason, the witness stated that, by Law No. 27,913, Congress delegated