3 paragraph), by January 29, 2003, at the latest, in order to present this information to the President. 10. The brief of January 30, 2003, in which the Commission advised that the purpose of the testimony of Liliana Ortega Mendoza (supra ninth having seen paragraph) was “to demonstrate that the State had failed to comply with the measures.” 11. Note CDH-S/073 of January 31, 2003, in which the Secretariat, on the instructions of the President, forwarded to the State the offer of testimony proposed by the Commission (supra eighth and ninth having seen paragraphs), so that it could present its respective comments. 12. The brief of February 3, 2003, in which the State indicated that “it ha[d] no objection to [the witness proposed by the Commission being heard] at the public hearing.” 13. The Order of the President of February 6, 2003, in which, in consultation with all the judges of the Court, he decided: 1. To convene the representatives of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the State of Venezuela to a public hearing to be held at the seat of the InterAmerican Court, from 10.20 a.m. on February 17, 2003, to receive the statements of the witnesses summoned and so that the Court might hear their points of view on the facts and circumstances relating to implementation of the provisional measures in the Liliana Ortega et al., Luis Uzcátegui and Luisiana Ríos et al. cases. 2. To convene Liliana Ortega to appear before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights at 10.30 a.m. on February 17, 2003, to give testimony on “the State’s failure to comply with the measures ordered by the Court [and on] the absence of an investigation, the lack of police protection in favor of COFAVIC, the sporadic police protection for [herself], and the threats [she has] received since the provisional measures were issued.” […] 14. The public hearing held at the seat of the Inter-American Court on February 17, 2003, at which there appeared: For the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Eduardo Bertoni, delegate Carlos Ayala, assistant, and Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, assistant For the State of Venezuela: Jorge Dugarte Contreras, Agent, and Gisela Aranda, Assistant 15. The testimony of Liliana Ortega before the public hearing, which is summarized as follows: a) She is Venezuelan, resides in Caracas, and is a lawyer, professor and Executive Director of COFAVIC, “an organization that was established following the events of El Caracazo in 1989; its work has documented more