4 from the next of kin in Guatemala to complete [the] list of beneficiaries.” On August 3, 2000, the President granted the extension until the date requested. 10. On August 21, 2000, the Inter-American Commission submitted its brief on reparations in the instant case in English with its annexes. 11. On August 23, 2000, the Secretariat requested the Commission to present the brief on reparations in Spanish, since the case was being processed in that language. 12. On September 14, 2000, the Spanish version of the Commission’s brief on reparations was received. The Commission submitted three additional annexes with the said brief (infra para. 44). 13. On September 28, 2000, on the instructions of the President, the Secretariat requested the representatives of the victims’ next of kin and Guatemala to submit their comments on the request to incorporate the additional annexes submitted by the Commission and granted them until October 30, 2000, to do so. 14. On October 27, 2000, the representatives of the victims’ next of kin informed the Court that they had no objections or comments on the additional annexes submitted by the Commission. 15. On November 7, 2000, the State requested the Court to grant a 90-day extension to the period established for formulating its observations on the briefs on reparations submitted by the representatives of the victims’ next of kin and the Commission, as well as on the admission of the documents contained in the three additional annexes to the Commission’s brief on reparations. On November 15, 2000, the Secretariat advised Guatemala that the period for submitting the said comments had been extended until January 13, 2001. 16. On November 13, 2000, the State informed the Court that it had appointed Jorge Mario García Laguardia, Ambassador of Guatemala to Costa Rica, as its agent. 17. On November 15, 2000, the Court decided to request the State to remit any information that it had available on the current place of residence or work, or any other place, where the next of kin of Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez and Jovito Josué Juárez Cifuentes could be found. It also decided to ask the State to inform the said persons who are under its jurisdiction, through the mass media (the press, radio and television), that the Court had delivered judgment on the merits of the case and that they should communicate with the Court as soon as possible. 18. On November 24, 2000, the Secretariat requested the Commission to provide a final list of the witnesses and experts who would appear at the public hearing on reparations to be held in the instant case. 19. On November 30, 2000, the State forwarded information that the publications in the media required by the order of November 15, 2000, had been completed. 20. On December 14, 2000, the State remitted photocopies of the announcements published in the newspapers, La Hora, and Diario de Centro América; a audio-cassette with the spot broadcast on Emisoras Unidas, and a