The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,

Referring to the case of Mr. Jaime Ricaurte Hurtado González and Mr. Pablo Vicente Tapia Farinango, a member and substitute member, respectively, of the National Congress of Ecuador, who were murdered on 17 February 1999, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/179/11(a)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 178th session (May 2006),

Recalling its persistent concern that only one of those accused of the murder of Mr. Hurtado and Mr. Tapia, Mr. Freddy Contreras Luna, stood trial - and was sentenced on 20 December 2005 to 16 years' imprisonment for this murder - and that proceedings against the other five accused have been suspended because they are still at large,

Recalling also the attack on the adviser to the Special Commission of Inquiry, Mr. Andocilla, on 22 February 2002, the day after he submitted the Commission's report to Congress,

Noting that the delegation of Ecuador to the 115th Assembly (October 2006) forwarded to the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians comprehensive documents on this case at the session it held during the Assembly,

Requests the Committee to continue examining this case in the light of those documents and report to it at its next session, to be held on the occasion of the 116th Assembly (April-May 2007).

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