9 22, 1997 (supra 26). The following day the Secretariat, on instructions from the President, requested that Peru present its comments on the clarifications made by the Commission by the latest date of October 13, 1997. These observations were not received. 29. By resolution of October 15, 1997 the President decided 1. To clarify that the original text of the application submitted to the Inter- American Court of Human Rights on July 22, 1997, by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, is the document that the parties should consider valid to prepare their defense and arguments in this case. 2. To incorporate into the original text of the application only the corrections submitted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in its correspondence of October 6, 1997. 3. To declare the request of the Commission that the original text of the application to replaced with the text submitted to the Court on August 26 and August 28, 1997, to be inadmissible. 4. To continue with the processing of the present case and to resume the time period to answer the application, which will expire on December 27, 1997. 5. To resume the time period to interpose preliminary objections, which will expire on October 27, 1997, and to request that the State indicate if it endorses its correspondence of October 1, 1997. 30. On October 17, 1997, the State endorsed its brief on preliminary objections, which had been filed on October 1, 1997 (supra 27). 31. On October 22, 1997, the Secretariat received a copy of the original file processed by the Commission. 32. On November 21, 1997, the Commission filed its written response to the preliminary objections interposed by Peru in which it requested that the Court declare the objections to be inadmissible. 33. On December 12, 1997, Peru requested an extension to file its answer to the application until January 5, 1998. On December 15, 1997, the Secretariat, following the instructions of the President, informed the State that the time period to file the answer to the demand can not be extended. Nevertheless, the Court will be closed as of noon on December 24 of the present year and will reopen on January 5, 1998, for which reason the Illustrious State of Peru may take until that date to file its answer. 34. On January 5, 1998, the State submitted the answer to the application, in which it asked the Court to reject the entire application. 35. On January 19, 1998, the State requested that the document the Commission annexed to its arguments on preliminary objections, which established the legal entity status of FASIC, referred to in that communication as the Fundación de Ayuda Social de las Iglesias Cristianas "be considered challenged as false."