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Porá Estate or an alternative which might allow reaching a solution to the case.70 In
view of the request filed by the Community leaders, on March 16, 1994 the Office of
Communal Lands of the IBR issued report No. 173, wherein it recommended to
request the corporations Urbana Inmobiliaria S.A. (Urban Real Estate, Inc.) and
COMPENSA that they make an offer for sale.71 Said report was served on Urbana
Inmobiliaria S.A. (Urban Real Estate, Inc.) and COMPENSA on April 11, 1994.72
73(34) On May 12, 1994 the leaders of the Sawhoyamaxa Community through their
attorneys filed a brief with the IBR, wherein they reaffirmed their request for
determination of the lands “which are part of their traditional territory and which at
present are registered under the name of the corporations Roswell y Compañía S.A.
(Roswell and Company, Inc.) and Kansol S.A.,” and that said corporations be
summoned “so that they make an offer for sale” of the lands claimed.”73 On February
8, 1995 the leaders of the Indigenous Community, through their attorneys,
reaffirmed said request to the IBR,74 which on August 2475 and September 19,
199576 served once more on Urbana Inmobiliaria S.A. (Urban Real Estate, Inc.) and
COMPENSA the report issued by the Office of Communal Lands (supra para. 73(33)).
73(35) On September 20, 1995 the attorney for the COMPENSA and Urbana
Inmobiliaria S.A. (Urban Real Estate, Inc.) corporations addressed the IBR to request
that his principals be dissociated from administrative case file No. 7597/91 pending
before said institution on the grounds that the lands claimed known as Retiro Santa
Elisa did not belong to such corporations,77 as they had been sold to the Roswell y
Cia. S.A. and Kansol S.A. corporations.
73(36) On September 16, 1996 the Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community, through
its attorney, ratified the claim it had laid on the lands “which are part of its […]
70
Cf. brief filed by the Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community with the IBR on March 11, 1994 (case
file of appendixes to the answer to the complaint, appendix 1, folios 1460 to 1461).
71
Cf. report No. 173 issued by the Office of Communal Affairs of the IBR on March 16, 1994 (case
file of appendixes to the answer to the complaint, appendix 1, folio 1464).
72
Cf. note S.G. No. 81 of the Secretary-General of the IBR addressed to Urbana Inmobiliaria S.A.
[Urban Real Estate, Inc.] and Compañía Paraguaya de Engorde de Novillos S.A. [Paraguayan Steer Feeder
Company] on April 7, 1994 (case file of appendixes to the answer to the complaint, appendix 1, folios
1462 to 1463).
73
Cf. brief filed by the Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community with the IBR on May 12, 1994 (case
file of appendixes to the answer to the complaint, appendix 1, folios 1438 to 1442).
74
Cf. brief filed by the Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community with the IBR on February 8, 1995
(case file of appendixes to the answer to the complaint, appendix 1, folio 1471).
75
Cf. note S.G. No. 399 of the Secretary-General of the IBR addressed to Urbana Inmobiliaria S.A.
[Urban Real Estate, Inc.] and to Compañía Paraguaya de Engorde de Novillos S.A. [Paraguayan Steer
Feeder Company] on August 24, 1995 (case file of appendixes to the answer to the complaint, appendix 1,
folio 1479).
76
Cf. note S.G. No. 446 of the Secretary-General of the IBR addressed to Urbana Inmobiliaria S.A.
[Urban Real Estate, Inc.] and to Compañía Paraguaya de Engorde de Novillos S.A. [Paraguayan Steer
Feeder Company] on September 19, 1995 (case file of appendixes to the answer to the complaint,
appendix 1, folio 1481).
77
Cf. brief filed by the attorney for Compañía Paraguaya de Engorde de Novillos S.A. [Paraguayan
Steer Feeder Company] and Urbana Inmobiliaria S.A. [Urban Real Estate, Inc.] before the IBR on
September 20, 1995 (case file of appendixes to the answer to the complaint, appendix 1, folio 1601).