3 III PROCEEDINGS AT THE REPARATIONS STAGE 4. On January 20, 2000, the President of the Inter-American Court (hereinafter “the President”), in compliance with the provisions of the ninth operative paragraph of the judgment on merits, decided: 1. To grant the next of kin of Henry Giovanni Contreras, Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval, Jovito Josué Juárez Cifuentes and Anstrau[n] Aman Villagrán Morales or, if appropriate, their legal representatives until March 20, 2000, to submit, for themselves or in representation of the dead victims, the arguments and evidence at their disposal, for the determination of reparations and costs. 2. To instruct the Secretariat of the Court to transmit to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights all the briefs and evidence received, once the period referred to in the preceding paragraph has expired. 3. To grant the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights a two-month period, as of the date of receipt of the said briefs and evidence, to submit the comments it deems pertinent concerning reparations and costs. 4. To instruct the Secretariat of the Court to transmit to the State of Guatemala all the briefs and evidence submitted, once the period referred to in the previous paragraph has expired. 5. To grant the State of Guatemala a two-month period as of the date of receipt of the briefs and evidence referred to in the previous operative paragraph to submit its observations and the evidence at its disposal for the determination of reparations and costs in the instant case. 6. To summon the next of kin of Henry Giovanni Contreras, Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval, Jovito Josué Juárez Cifuentes and Anstrau[n] Aman Villagrán Morales or, if appropriate, their legal representatives, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the State of Guatemala to a public hearing to be held on a date that will be announced in due course, once the written stage of the procedure concludes. 5. On March 14, 2000, the representatives of the victims’ next of kin requested the Court to extend by 45 days the period for submitting its brief on reparations, which the Court had established in its order of January 20, 2000. 6. On March 15, 2000, the President extended the period granted to the victims’ next of kin until May 5 that year. 7. On April 7, 2000, the State informed the Court that it had appointed José Alberto Briz Gutiérrez, Chargé d’Affaires a. i. of the Embassy of Guatemala in the Republic of Costa Rica, as its agent. 8. On May 5, 2000, the representatives of the victims’ next of kin submitted their brief on reparations. 9. On July 7, 2000, the Commission requested the Court to extend until August 4, 2000, the period that had been established until July 12 that year for submitting its brief on reparations. The same day, the President granted the requested extension. On August 2, 2000, the Commission requested a further extension until August 21 that year, because it had “to seek certain information and documents