8 20. The application in this case was submitted to the consideration of the Court on June 8, 2000. 21. The Commission appointed Juan E. Méndez and Hélio Bicudo as its delegates; Christina M. Cerna and Andrea Galindo as its lawyers; and Sofía Macher, Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Coordinator; Germán Alvarez Arbulú, of the Asociación Pro-Derechos Humanos (APRODEH); Iván Bazán Chacón, Executive Director of the Fundación Ecuménica para el Desarrollo y la Paz (FEDEPAZ); Ronald Gamarra Herrera, of the Legal Defense Institute (IDL); Rocío Gala Gálvez, of the Comisión de Derechos Humanos (COMISDEH); Viviana Krsticevic, Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and María Claudia Pulido, lawyer of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) as assistants. 22. On July 4, 2000, on the instructions of the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”) and in accordance with the provisions of Articles 33 and 34 of the Rules of Procedure, the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”) requested the Commission to transmit various items of information and documentation that were missing, and also certain attachments to the application that were incomplete or illegible, within 20 days. On July 21, 2000, the Commission forwarded part of the requested documentation. On August 11, 2000, the Secretariat requested the Commission to transmit the documents corresponding to the attachments that had not been duly corrected when it sent its previous communication. 23. On August 14, 2000, the Secretariat notified the application and its attachments to the State. It also informed the State that it had asked the Commission to transmit some attachments that were still defective and these would be forwarded once they had been received. Furthermore, it advised Peru that it had one month to appoint its agent and deputy agent and designate an ad hoc judge; and four months to answer the application. 24. On August 21, 2000, the Commission sent part of the attachments that the Secretariat had requested on August 11 that year (supra para. 22). On September 1, 2000, the Secretariat informed the Commission that it was still awaiting some pages corresponding to attachments to the application, mentioned in the brief of August 18, 2000. 25. On August 24, 2000, a representative of the Peruvian Embassy before the Government of the Republic of Costa Rica came to the seat of the Court to return the application in the instant case. This official handed the Secretariat Note No. 5-9M/49 of the Peruvian Embassy dated August 24, 2000, which stated that: … on the instructions of its Government, it proceeded to return to [the Court] the ... notification [of the application] and its attachments, ... for the following reasons: 1. By Legislative Resolution dated July 8, 1999, ... the Congress of the Republic approved the withdrawal of the recognition of the contentious jurisdiction of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights. 2. On July 9, 1999, the Government of the Republic of Peru deposited with the General Secretariat of the Organization of American State (OAS), the instrument wherein it declares that, pursuant to the American Convention on Human Rights, the Republic of Peru is withdrawing the declaration consenting to the optional clause concerning recognition of the contentious jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ... .