39 RESPECTIVELY, TO BE OF SOCIAL INTEREST AND EXPROPRIATES THEM IN FAVOR OF THE INSTITUTO PARAGUAYO DEL INDÍGENA, FOR SUBSEQUENT TRANSFER TO THE YAKYE AXA INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OF THE ENXET LENGUA PEOPLE” (highlighted in the original), and asked that it be “forwarded to the respective committees for the procedure set forth in the National Constitution and in the congressional rules of procedure.”98 50.56. The legislative Committee on Human Rights and Indigenous Affairs99 and the Committee on Rural Welfare100 recommended that Congress reject said expropriation bill. On November 16, 2000, members of Congress Sonia de León and Rafael Filizzola Serra also asked the congressional President to withdraw said expropriation bill from Congress in view of the fact that “the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights [decided] to intervene in this matter and the State […] has agreed to seek a friendly settlement.”101 50.57. On November 28, 2000 Congress issued resolution No. 544, in which it decided to withdraw the expropriation bill.102 50.58. On January 30, 2002 the President of Paraguay and the Minister of Education and Culture of Paraguay submitted to the Senate a new expropriation bill that “DECLARED A PART OF THE PROPERTY OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INC., SEAT OF THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY KNOWN AS ENXET (Lengua-Maskoy) ‘YAKIE AXA’, OF THE VILLA HAYES DISTRICT OF PRESIDENTE HAYES DEPARTMENT, TO BE OF SOCIAL INTEREST AND EXPROPRIATES IT, IN FAVOR OF THE INSTITUTO PARAGUAYO DEL INDÍGENA” 103(highlighted in the original). 50.59. on June 19, 2002 the Senate Committee on Agrarian Reform and Rural Welfare recommended adoption of said expropriation bill and requested its discussion by the plenary (supra para. 50.58).104 On June 27, 2002 the Senate discussed and voted on the expropriation bill submitted by the Executive. The bill was ultimately 98 See note addressed by members of Congress Sonia de León and Rafael Filizzola Serra to congressman Cándido Vera Bejarano, President of Congress, on September 14, 2000 (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 13, volumes 1315 to 1316). 99 See note D.C.DD.HH.N0 03/00 addressed by the legislative Committee on Human Rights and Indigenous Affairs to Congress on November 1, 2000 (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 16, volume 1337). 100 See report CBR/365 issued by the legislative Committee on Rural Welfare on November 8, 2000 (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 17, volume 1338). 101 See note addressed by members of Congress Rafael Filizzola Serra and Sonia de León to the President of Congress on November 16, 2000 (file with evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case submitted by the State, volume 3163). 102 See report No. 544 issued by Congress on November 28, 2000 (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 18, volume 1339). 103 See note No. 639 addressed by the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Luis Ángel González Macchi, to the Legislative on January 30, 2002 (file with appendixes to the application, appendix 14, volumes 1327 to 1331). 104 See report No. 40 2001/2002 issued by the Senate Committee on Agrarian Reform and Rural Welfare on June 19, 2002 (file with evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case submitted by the State, volume 3088).