71 communities’ right to the effective implementation of the law, and also frustrating the legitimate expectations that the provincial authorities’ actions had generated among the petitioner indigenous communities, to obtain a single common title to territorial property. 3. The State of Argentina violated Articles 8 and 25 of the American Convention, in connection with Articles 21 and 1.1 of the Convention, because the State did not afford them an effective procedure to acquire recognition of their ancestral territory, and also because successive, ad hoc variations were introduced to the administrative procedure that was applicable to the resolution of their territorial claim, on no less than six occasions. 4. The State of Argentina violated Articles 21, 13 and 23 of the American Convention, in connection with Articles 21 and 1.1 of the Convention and to the detriment of the indigenous communities that form part of the Lhaka Honhat Association, in having carried out public works and granting a concession for oil and gas exploration in the ancestral territory without complying with the requirements set by inter-American law, namely, to conduct expropriation procedures, to ensure no impact on the survival of the indigenous communities, to conduct prior, free and informed consultations, to conduct prior social and environmental impact assessments, and to grant participation in the benefits derived from the works and the concession. 5. The State of Argentina violated Article 21 of the American Convention, in connection with Articles 1.1 and 2 of the Convention, to the detriment of the indigenous communities that form part of the Lhaka Honhat Association, in having failed to exercise the required due diligence to control the deforestation of the ancestral territory by illegal loggers. VII. RECOMMENDATIONS 250. On the grounds of the analyses and conclusions of the present report, THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS RECOMMENDS THAT THE STATE OF ARGENTINA: 1. The State should finalize promptly the territorial formalization process in Fiscal Lots 14 and 55, taking as guiding parameters for its conclusion, in addition to the Inter-American standards described in this report, the following minimum guidelines: - the petitioners have the right to a materially continuous territory which can allow them to develop their nomadic way of life; the 400.000 hectares that the government already promised to allocate them must be continuous, without obstacles, subdivisions or fragmentation, with due regard to the claims of other indigenous communities. - removal of the fences which have been tended within the indigenous territory. - control of deforestation. 2. Provide reparations for the violations of the right to territorial property and access to information derived from the development of public works without prior informed consultation, environmental impact assessments or benefit sharing. 3. Ensure that in the demarcation of the territory and approval of any future public works or concessions on indigenous ancestral lands, the State conduct prior informed consultations, environmental impact assessments and benefit sharing conforming to Inter-American standards.