applicable to this case, makes provision for alleged victims or their representatives and the respondent State to submit a list of questions that they wish to be answered by those summoned to render statements before a notary public. In application of this provision, the President proceeds to grant an opportunity for the parties to submit, if they so wish, any questions they consider pertinent to the deponents and expert witnesses mentioned in the preceding paragraph. In rendering their statements by affidavit, the deponents shall answer those questions, unless the President decides otherwise. The corresponding terms shall be specified infra, in Operative paragraph 2 of this Order. The aforementioned statements and expert opinions shall be transmitted to the Commission and the parties, as applicable. In turn, the Commission and the parties may submit any observations deemed pertinent within the period indicated in this Order (infra Operative paragraph 4). The Court shall assess the evidentiary value of these statements in due course, taking into account the points of view, if any, expressed by the parties. 2. Statements and expert reports to be received at a public hearing 35. Given that the Court records in the instant case are ready for the opening of the oral proceedings on the preliminary objections and possible merits, reparations and costs, the President of the Court deems it appropriate to convene a public hearing to receive the statements of Dennis Cerezo Cervantes, the witness proposed by the representative, and of Laura Pautassi, the expert witness proposed by the Commission. E. Application of the Victims’ Legal Assistance Fund 36. In his Order of September 14, 2012 (supra Having Seen 6) the President admitted the request presented by the alleged victims, through their representative, to have access to the Assistance Fund of the Court, and granted the financial assistance necessary for the presentation of a maximum of four statements, either by affidavit or at the public hearing. 37. Having determined that the statements offered by the representative shall be received by the Court and the means by which these shall be rendered, it is now appropriate to specify the amount, recipients and purpose of said assistance. 38. Accordingly, the President decides that financial assistance shall be assigned to cover the travel and accommodation expenses necessary to enable the witness Dennis Cerezo Cervantes to appear before the Court and render his testimony during the public hearing to be held in the city of San Jose, Costa Rica, and to cover the costs of rendering and sending the affidavit of Mrs. Melba Suárez Peralta, and of two other deponents to be chosen by the representative. 39. As to the person who will appear at the public hearing, the Court shall make the pertinent and necessary arrangements to cover the travel, hotel and per diem costs of said deponent with resources from the Legal Assistance Fund. 40. As required by Article 4 of the Rules for the Operation of the Assistance Fund of the Court (hereinafter the “Rules of the Assistance Fund”), the Secretariat of the Court shall open a file on the costs of the case, in order to keep accounts and record all expenditures made with resources from the Fund. 41. Finally, the President recalls that, pursuant to Article 5 of the Rules of the 10