5 videotape containing the announcement shown on NOTI-7 of the Guatemalan national television service. 21. On January 12, 2001, Guatemala submitted its observations on the briefs on reparations submitted by the representatives of the victims’ next of kin and the Commission. 22. On January 30, 2001, the Secretariat again requested the representatives of the victims’ next of kin and the Commission to provide the final list of the witnesses and experts who would appear at the public hearing on reparations to be held by the Court. 23. On February 7, 2001, the representatives of the victims proposed Christian Salazar Volkmann and Emilio García Méndez as experts, the latter in substitution for Bruce Harris, who had been proposed originally and who, for personal reasons, could not appear before the Court; on February 8 that year, they forwarded the curriculum vitae of Mr. García Méndez. 24. On February 7, 2001, the Commission submitted the list of the witnesses and experts that it wished to be summoned to the respective public hearing. In this note, it proposed Margarita Urbina, Ana María Contreras and Marta Isabel Túnchez Palencia as witnesses and Ana Deutsch as an expert. It also said that it would propose a member of the family of Anstraun Aman Villagrán Morales, without indicating a name. Moreover, it advised that, following the publication of the announcements ordered by the Court, Marta Isabel Túnchez Palencia, the mother of Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, had presented herself at the offices of the Asociación Casa Alianza/América Latina (hereinafter “Casa Alianza”) and had stated that she wished to take part in the proceeding. On February 8 that year, the Commission forwarded the curriculum vitae of Ana Deutsch. 25. On February 9, 2001, the Secretariat sent a letter to the Commission acknowledging the witnesses and expert it had proposed and, on the instructions of the President, informed the Commission, inter alia, that, pursuant to Article 27(2) of the Rules of Procedure, the parties who enter a case at a later stage of the proceeding shall take up the proceedings at that stage and that the period for the victims’ next of kin or their representatives to submit arguments on reparations had already expired. It also informed the Commission that, should Mrs. Túnchez Palencia or her representative submit her claims with regard to reparations, “the Court [would] evaluate them, taking into consideration the circumstances of the case and [would] decide on their admissibility.” 26. On February 9, 2001, the President issued an order in which, on the one hand, he considered “[...that] with regard to the witnesses and expert witnesses proposed by the representatives of the victims’ next of kin and the Commission who ha[d] not been summoned by this order, [he would] evaluate the pertinence of summoning them when he ha[d] consulted the other parties to the case” and, on the other, he decided to summon the representatives of the victims’ next of kin, the Inter-American Commission and Guatemala to a public hearing on reparations to be held at the seat of the Court on March 12, 2001. In this order, he summoned the witnesses, Ana María Contreras and Margarita Urbina, and the expert, Christian Salazar Volkmann.