11 invite the parties to a formal hearing, during the next session so that, at that time, the State’s Agent c[ould] inform the Court about the way in which the State [was] executing the Commission’s recommendations and, thus, seek an honorable, full and satisfactory solution to the case, with the active participation of the Inter-American Court and, in particular, an agreement with the next of kin of the victims of the events in question. Furthermore, it attached a brief of May 24, 1999, presented by the State to the Commission, which provided information on compliance with the recommendations made in Report No. 83/98. 31. On August 27, 1999, the President issued an order in which he summoned the parties to a public hearing to be held at the seat of the Court on September 22, 1999. 32. On September 2, 1999, the Commission requested the Court to [p]ostpone the public hearing in this case because the 104th session of the IACHR would be held in Washington D.C. from September 21 to October 8, 1999, and its First Vice Chairman, Hélio Bicudo [...] ha[d] to chair several hearings on subsequent dates, so that it would be impossible for him to attend the public hearing in this case. Moreover, the President of the Republic of Venezuela [had requested] a hearing before the IACHR […which] would take place at 9 a.m. on September 22, 1999. 33. On September 6, 1999, the State informed the Court that “it agree[d] that the hearing should be postponed ...”. Moreover, it requested an extension of 60 days in order to present the brief replying to the application. On September 7, 1999, following the President’s instructions, the Secretariat granted the State until January 12, 2000, to reply to the application. 34. On September 9, 1999, the President resolved to annul his order of August 27, 1999, and to summon the representatives of the State and the Commission to a public hearing to be held at the seat of the Court during its 46th regular session. 35. On October 13, 1999, the President summoned Venezuela and the InterAmerican Commission to a public hearing to be held at the seat of the Court on November 10, 1999. 36. On November 10, 1999, a public hearing on the instant case was held. There appeared before the Court for the State of Venezuela: Raúl Arrieta Cuevas, Agent; and Noel García Gómez, Deputy Agent; for the Inter-American Commission: Oscar Luján Fappiano, Delegate; Milton Castillo Rodríguez, Lawyer; Liliana Ortega Mendoza, Assistant; and María Claudia Pulido, Assistant. VI