66 specific authority to INRA to grant title to indigenous communal lands” and points out that it is possible that the existence of “legal ambiguities has […] contributed to the pronounced delay in the response by INRA to indigenous demands for communal titling”. That diagnostic study adds that […] there is an incompatibility between the specific Agrarian Reform laws on the question of indigenous lands and the country’s legal system. That problem brings with it legal and conceptual confusion, and contributes to the political ineffectiveness of the institutions entrusted with resolving this issue. […] […] in Nicaragua the problem is the lack of laws to allow concrete application of the Constitutional principles, or [that] when laws do exist (case of the Autonomy Law) there has not been sufficient political will for them to be regulated. […] [Nicaragua] lacks a clear legal delimitation on the status of national lands in relation to indigenous communal lands. […] […] beyond the relation between national and communal land, the very concept of indigenous communal land lacks a clear definition. 126. On the other hand, it has been proven that since 1990 no title deeds have been issued to indigenous communities (supra para. 103(s)). 127. In light of the above, this Court concludes that there is no effective procedure in Nicaragua for delimitation, demarcation, and titling of indigenous communal lands. b) Administrative and judicial steps: 128. Due to the lack of specific and effective legislation for indigenous communities to exercise their rights and to the fact that the State has disposed of lands occupied by indigenous communities by granting a concession, the “General diagnostic study on land tenure in the indigenous communities of the Atlantic Coast”, carried out by the Central American and Caribbean Research Council, points out that “ ‘amparo remedies’ have been filed several times, alleging that a concession by the State (normally to a logging firm) interferes with the communal rights of a specific indigenous community”. 129. It has been proven that the Awas Tingni Community has taken various steps before different Nicaraguan authorities (supra paras. 103(ñ), (o), (p), (r), as follows: a) b) on July 11, 1995, they submitted a letter to the Minister of MARENA in which they requested that no further steps be taken to grant the concession to the SOLCARSA corporation without a prior agreement with the Community; in March, 1996, a request was filed before the Regional Council of the RAAN to ensure their property rights to their ancestral communal lands, in accordance with the Constitution of Nicaragua, and for the Regional Council of the RAAN to prevent the granting of concessions for the utilization of natural resources in the area without the assent of the Community. The latter submitted several proposals for

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