-6Villarán, Commissioner; Víctor Hugo Madrigal, Juan Pablo Alban, Manuela Cuvi and Lilly Ching, advisers; b) for the representatives: Tatiana Rincón Covelli, Ana Alverti and Michael Camilleri, CEJIL lawyers, and Luz Marina Monzón and Carlos Rodríguez Mejía, lawyers from the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas; and c) for the State: Eduardo Montealegre Lynett, Agent; Luz Marina Gil, Deputy Agent; Ambassador Julio Aníbal Riaño Velandia, Héctor Adolfo Sintura Varela, Carlos Rodríguez, Dionisio Araujo, Advisers, and also Ambassador Clara Inés Vargas Silva and María del Pilar Gómez and Marta Carrillo, advisers. 32. On October 14, 2005, on the instructions of the President and in the terms of Article 45(2) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court, the Secretariat requested the representatives and the State to provide, by November 3, 2005, at the latest, certain information and various documents as useful evidence in the case, including: information on the criminal proceedings underway in the military criminal jurisdiction and in the ordinary criminal jurisdiction, and on disciplinary proceedings; copies of birth, marriage and death certificates. Since the State did not submit this information, on the instructions of the President, the Secretariat reiterated this request on November 9, 14 and 21, 2005. 33. On October 19 and 20, 2005, the State, the Commission and the representatives forwarded their respective final written arguments. With its brief, the State presented a series of documents relating to the domestic proceedings as attachments. Since numerous folios of these attachments were illegible or incomplete, on October 26, 2005, the Secretariat requested the State to re-submit them as soon as possible. Some of the requested documents were presented by the State on November 17, 18 and 28, 2005. 34. On November 3 and 7, 2005, the representatives presented certain information and a series of documents in response to the request for useful evidence (supra para. 32). On November 9, 2005, the Secretariat granted the State and the Inter-American Commission one week to present any comments they deemed pertinent on these documents. No comments were received. 35. On December 9, 2005, the Inter-American Commission referred to the documents presented as attachments to the final arguments brief presented by Colombia (supra para. 33) and requested that they should not be incorporated into the case file or taken into consideration as evidence. On December 15, 2005, on the instructions of the President, the Secretariat granted a non-extendible period until December 21, 2005, for the Inter-American Commission and the representatives to submit any comments they deemed pertinent on the documents presented by the State as attachments to their final arguments and informed them that the Court would consider the Commission’s request when it delivered the corresponding judgment (infra paras. 75 and 76). 36. On December 21, 2005, the Commission presented its comments on the probative nature and admissibility of the documents presented as attachments to the final arguments brief submitted by Colombia (supra paras. 33 and 35), and also a series of arguments de facto and de jure on the merits of the case. 37. On December 21, 2005, Colombia presented a brief in which it made a series of statements with regard to the Commission’s brief of December 9, 2005, and the Secretariat’s note of December 15, 2005, concerning the documents presented as attachments to the final arguments brief (supra para. 35). The State also submitted