11 remitted its final written arguments and the attachments. On April 15, 2005, the Commission forwarded its final written arguments. 50. On August 3, 2005, on the instructions of the President and in accordance with Article 45(1) of the Rules of Procedure, the Secretariat requested the Commission, the representatives, and the State to forward the following documents it considered would be helpful: Resolution No. 5-88 of the Central Electoral Board of June 8, 1988; Act No. 8-92 of April 13, 1992, [and a copy of] the documents provided by Genaro Rincón and Marcelino de la Cruz as attachments to the document: ‘declaration requesting authorization for late declaration’ submitted to the ‘Judge of the Court of First Instance of the Judicial District of Monte Plata’ on September 11, 1997.” 51. On August 16, 17 and 26, 2005, respectively, the State, the representatives, and the Commission presented some of the documents requested by the Secretariat as helpful evidence. 52. On September 5, 2005, the State submitted a brief with observations (and some attachments), on the documents forwarded band the representatives on August 17, 2005, “to help the Court decide.” * * * 53. On January 31, February 15 and 25, March 2, 14 and 25, April 1, 13 and 14, and June 3, 2005, the Court received amici curiae from the following persons, organizations and institutions: a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) j) 54. Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE); Asociación Civil de Centros Comunitarios de Aprendizaje (CECODAP); Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (CLADEM); Minority Rights Group International (MRG); Katarina Tomasevski; Secretaría Ampliada de la Red de Encuentro Domínico Haitiano Jacques Viau (RED), consisting of the Centro Cultural Domínico Haitiano (CCDH), the Movimiento Sociocultural de los Trabajadores Haitianos (MOSCTHA), the Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados y Migrantes (SRJM-RD), the Centro Dominicano de Investigaciones Legales (CEDAIL) and the Asociación Pro-Desarrollo de la Mujer y el Medio Ambiente, Inc. (APRODEMA); Comparative International Education Society (CIES); Themis Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Ottawa School of Law; Open Society Justice Initiative, and Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), Servicio de Apoyo y Orientación a Inmigrantes y Refugiados (CAREF), Clínica Jurídica para los Derechos de Inmigrantes y Refugiados (Law School of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, CELS and CAREF) and Christian Courtis, Professor of the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. On April 4 and 15 and on June 7, 2005, the Secretariat forwarded copies of