5 21. On May 17 and 23, 2006 the representatives filed their brief of requests and arguments, together with appendixes thereto, wherein they offered to submit testimonial and expert witness evidence. 22. On July 21, 2006 the State filed its answer to the application (hereinafter the “answer to the application”), attaching documentary evidence thereto. In said brief the Peruvian State made an acquiescence to the claims and a partial acknowledgement of international liability for certain violations alleged by the Commission (infra paras. 37 to 44). 23. On August 17, 2006 the President issued an Order, whereby it was ordered that affidavits be admitted as testimonies of Fedor Muñoz-Sánchez, Rodolfo Robles-Espinoza, and Víctor Cubas-Villanueva, who had been proposed as witnesses by the Commission and the representatives, and those of Jaime Oyague-Velazco, José Ariol Teodoro-León, José Esteban Oyague-Velazco, Dina Flormelania Pablo-Mateo, Carmen Amaro-Cóndor, Bertila Bravo-Trujillo, and Rosario Carpio-Cardoso-Figueroa, proposed as witnesses by the representatives, as well as the expert opinions of Eloy Andrés Espinoza-Saldaña-Barrera, proposed by the Commission, and of Kai Ambos and Samuel Abad-Yupanqui, proposed by the representatives, all testimonies which were to be forwarded to the Court by September 8 of that same year. Pursuant to operative paragraph 3 of said Order, the parties were granted a non-renewable extension of seven days, running from the moment such testimonies and expert opinions were received, to submit any comments that they might deem appropriate concerning said testimonies. Furthermore, in view of the specific circumstances of the case, the President summoned the Inter-American Commission, the representatives, and the State to a public hearing to be held at the seat of the Court on September 29, 2006 at 9:00 a.m., to hear the final oral arguments on the merits and reparations, costs and expenses in the instant case, as well as the testimonies of Gisela Ortiz-Perea and Raida Cóndor-Sáez, proposed as witnesses by the Commission and by the representatives, and of Antonia Pérez-Velásquez, proposed as witness by the representatives. Furthermore, in such Order, the President informed the parties that they would have a non-renewable term extending until October 29, 2006 to submit their final written arguments regarding the merits of the case and the reparations and costs and expenses. 24. On August 30, 2006 the Secretariat requested the State to forward, as soon as possible, several documents to which it had made reference in its answer to the application, but which had neither been offered nor attached as evidence in the appendixes thereto. On September 27 of that same year the Secretariat reiterated said request to the State, which forwarded part of the documentation requested on November 2, 2006. 25. On September 8, 2006 the representatives submitted the affidavits rendered by Fedor Muñoz-Sánchez, Carmen Rosa Amaro-Cóndor, Dina Flormelania Pablo-Mateo, Víctor Andrés Ortiz-Torres, Víctor Cubas-Villanueva, José Ariol Teodoro-León, José Esteban Oyague-Velazco, Rosario Carpio-Cardoso-Figueroa, and Edmundo Cruz (supra para. 23). 26. On September 11, 2006 the affidavit of Rodolfo Robles-Espinoza was directly received at the Secretariat. On that same day the Secretariat informed the Commission and the State that a term of seven days had been set for them to file their comments on the affidavits submitted by the representatives (supra para. 25). 27. On September 11, 2006 the representatives informed that Bertila Bravo-Trujillo and Jaime Oyague had not been able to execute the affidavits and that Kai Ambos would not be able to give the expert opinion he had been requested.