3 5. On June 18, 2001 the Embassy of Peru in Costa Rica sent to the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”) a copy of Supreme Decree No. 065-2001PCM of June 2, 2001, which established the Truth Committee, set up for the purpose of clarifying the facts and responsibilities for human rights violations between May, 1980 and November, 2000. 6. On June 20, 2001, pursuant to article 67 of the American Convention and article 58 of the Rules of Procedure, the Inter-American Commission filed a request for interpretation of the judgment on the merits. 7. On September 3, 2001 the Court issued its decision on interpretation of the judgment on the merits delivered on March 14, 2001, in which it unanimously ruled: 1. That the request for interpretation of the judgment of March 14, 2001 in the Barrios Altos Case, filed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, is admissible. 2. That, given the nature of the violation resulting from amnesty laws No. 26479 and No. 26492, the judgment on the merits in the Barrios Altos case has general effects. III PROCEEDING DURING THE REPARATIONS STAGE 8. On May 14, 2001 the Court delivered its judgment on the merits, in which, among others (supra par. 3), it 6. Rule[d] that reparations w[ould] be determined by mutual agreement among the respondent State, the Inter-American Commission and the victims, their next of kin or their duly accredited legal representatives, within three months from the date when notice of the instant Judgment is served. 7. Reserve[d] the power to review and approve the agreement mentioned in the previous operative paragraph and, in case no agreement were reached, to continue the reparations proceedings. 9. On June 15 and 19, 2001 the State and Sofía Macher, Executive Secretary of the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH), acting as representative of the victims and their next of kin, respectively, requested of the Court a 30 day extension of the term set in operative paragraph six of the March 14, 2001 judgment, so as to reach an agreement on reparations in the instant case. The Secretariat, following instructions by the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”) informed them that because that term had been set by means of a judgment, the request could only be heard and decided by the same Court which delivered that judgment. 10. On July 26, 2001 Peru sent a copy of the “Writ of commitment of the Highlevel Commission for the Barrios Altos case” and of the “Agreement on comprehensive reparation to the victims and next of kin of the victims in the Barrios Altos case”, and reported that “given the imminent change of Government, the Parties have agreed to postpone the formal signing of the agreement until the new authorities have taken office”1. 1 On August 27, 2001 the State sent 10 appendices to the writ of commitment of the abovementioned High-level Commission. On August 3, 2001 Sofía Macher, Executive Secretary of the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH), acting as representative of the victims and