5 20. On October 28, 2005, the State filed its answer to the application and requested that the “State’s unconditional acquiescence in the application filed by the Commission be deemed duly submitted” (infra para. 44). To that effect, pursuant to the instructions of the President, the State was required to clarify, no later than November 15, 2005, and subject to no term extension, whether its acknowledgment of international liability covered the claims set forth by the representatives in the brief of requests and arguments, which were not brought by the Commission in its application. 21. On November 15, 2005, the State submitted the clarification requested by the President (supra para. 20) and indicated that, “[t]he State of Paraguay undertakes to comply with the decisions of the [...] Court as regards to the claims of the representatives of the victims, to their fullest extent.” 22. On November 23 and 24, 2005, the Commission and the representatives, respectively, filed their comments to the answer to the application and the brief of clarifications requested by the President regarding the scope of the State’s acknowledgment of liability. Both the Commission and the representatives indicated in their respective briefs that the State’s acknowledgment did not cover the claims brought by the representatives in addition to the claims contained in the application filed by the Commission, in relation to the alleged violation of Articles 19 (Rights of the Child) and 5 (Right to Personal Integrity) of said treaty in relation to Articles 6 and 8 of the Convention against Torture. 23. On December 27, 2005, the State appointed Raúl Martínez-Villalba as Deputy Agent. 24. On February 9, 2006, the parties were notified of the Order issued by the Court on February 7, 2006, whereby it decided to invite the parties to a public hearing to be held in the city of Brasilia, Brazil, on March 30, 2006, to receive the testimonies of Mrs. De Belén Areco and expert witness Mr. Carlos Portillo, both proposed by the representatives, and the oral arguments on the merits and potential reparations and costs in the instant case. Furthermore, in said Order the President requested the ten witnesses and three expert witnesses proposed by the representatives to render their testimony through affidavits. Moreover, in this Order the Court requested the State to submit evidence to facilitate the adjudication of the case and informed the parties that they should submit their final written arguments on the merits and potential reparations and costs no later than May 15, 2006. 25. On February 24, 2006, the representatives submitted the affidavits of the expert witnesses Luis Fondebrider and Julio Alberto Ravioli. The affidavit of Mr. Pedro Vargas was submitted on February 27, 2006. 26. On March 6, 2006, the representatives submitted the affidavits on the testimony rendered by María Magdalena, Patricio, Doralicia, Sebastián, Jorge Ramón and Daniel, all of them members of the Vargas-Areco, and the testimony of expert witness Mr. Juan Carlos Yuste-Alonso. 27. On March 13, 2006, the State submitted evidence to facilitate the adjudication of the case as requested by the Court (supra para. 24).