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b) The most recent meeting on this issue had been held on Monday, September,
12, 2005, with members of the Human Rights and Budget Committee of the
Senate Chamber of the National Congress; and
c) The Attorney General (Procurador General) has issued opinions urging the
Ministers of Finance and Foreign Affairs to continue facilitating the procedures
to comply with the judgment.
5.
The note of the Secretariat of November 16, 2005, in which, on the instructions
of the President, it reminded the representatives of the victim that on November 3,
2005, the period of four weeks granted by the President for submitting their
observations on the State’s report on compliance with the judgment had expired and
therefore requested them to transmit their observations forthwith. The representatives
did not submit their observations.
6.
The brief of November 16, 2005, in which the Inter-American Commission
submitted its observations on the State’s report of October 5, 2005 (supra Having
seen paragraph 4) and indicated that:
a) More than a year had elapsed since the judgment had been delivered, but the
State had not complied with any of the operative paragraphs, even though the
time established for compliance was six month from notification of the
judgment;
b) Regarding compliance with the obligation to make reparation and to pay costs
and expenses, the information presented by the State did not clarify whether
the funds to make the payment established in the sixth and seventh operative
paragraphs of the judgment had really been authorized. In this regard, the
State has not presented appropriate information showing that there had been
significant results in the process of complying with these paragraphs of the
judgment;
c) The obligation to pay the compensation and the costs and expenses, increased
by the amounts corresponding to interest on arrears, as established in the
judgment, was still pending; and
d) The State had not complied with the publication of the proven facts of the
judgment.
CONSIDERING
1.
That one of the inherent attributes of the jurisdictional functions of the Court is
to monitor compliance with its decisions
2.
That Paraguay has been a State Party to the American Convention since August
24, 1989, and accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court on January 8, 1993.
3.
That, Article 68(1) of the American Convention establishes that “[[t]he States
Parties to the Convention undertake to comply with the judgment of the Court in any
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