3 8. Order[ed] the initiation of the reparations phase and entrust[ed] the pertinent actions to its President. III PROCEEDINGS AT THE REPARATIONS STAGE 4. On May 21, 1998, the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”) decided: 1. To grant the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights until July 21, 1998, to submit a brief and any evidence it has for determining the reparations in this case. 2. To grant the victims and, when appropriate, their next of kin, until July 21, 1998, to submit a brief and any evidence they have for determining the reparations in this case. 3. To grant the State of Guatemala two calendar months to submit a brief and any evidence it has for determining the reparations in this case. This period {will] begin on the day that the State receives the briefs of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and of the victims or, when appropriate, their next of kin. 5. On May 25, 1998, the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”) requested the organizations indicated as petitioners in the application in this case, pursuant to the provisions of Article 23 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter “the Rules of Procedure”), to submit the powers of attorney authorizing them to represent the victims or the victims’ next of kin, and also a single address where the communications of the Court should be notified. On August 21, 1998, the Secretariat reiterated this request to the representatives of the victims or the victims’ next of kin. On September 8, 1998, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and Human Rights Watch/Americas informed the Court that they would not represent any of the victims in this case during the reparations stage. 6. On July 16, 1998, German Giovanni Paniagua Morales, brother of Anna Elizabeth Paniagua Morales, sent a letter in which he requested information on the case. On July 20, 1998, on the instructions of the President, the Secretariat informed him that the reparations stage of the case was pending before the Court and notified him of the order to open this stage issued by the President (supra 4/infra 9), and also the letter addressed to the legal representatives of the petitioners on May 25, 1998. 7. On July 17, 1998, the Commission advised that it would be loco to Guatemala from August 6 to 11, 1998, at which time it establish contact with several of the victims’ next of kin in the Owing to the foregoing, it requested the Court to extend the period observations on reparations. making a visit in would try to recase sub judice. for submitting its 8. On July 20, 1998, Mark Martel, the representative of the next of kin of Oscar Vásquez, Anna Elizabeth Paniagua Morales and Manuel de Jesús González López, indicated that he was awaiting information on the claims for compensation of the Vásquez and Paniagua Morales families in order to forward a brief on reparations and therefore requested a one-month extension for the submission of this document. 9. On July 20, 1998, the President decided: