6 24. On January 23, 2006, the Commission forwarded its observations to the expert opinions presented by the parties (supra paras. 21 and 23). The State and the representatives did not present observations. 25. On January 23, 2006 the Commission and the representatives presented their final written arguments. The representatives enclosed several appendixes to said arguments. 26. On February 24, 2006 the State presented its brief of final arguments and several appendixes. This presentation was time-barred, since the term to do so had expired on January 23, 2006. 27. On March 8, 2006 the State informed that it appointed, as of January 27, 2006, Mrs. Rosa América Miranda de Galo, Attorney General of the Republic of Honduras, as agent in the present case in substitution of Mr. Sergio Zavala Leiva. On April 7, 2006 the State informed that it appointed, as of that date, Mr. David Reyes Paz, Sub Attorney General of the Republic, as agent in the present case in substitution of Mrs. Rosa América Miranda de Galo. 28. On April 25, 2006 the Secretariat, following the President’s instructions, requested that the Commission, the representatives, and the State forward, no later than May 26, 2006, certain information and documentation as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case. 29. On May 26, 2006 the representatives presented part of the documentation as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case, in response to that requested by the President in its note of April 25, 2006. On June 14 and July 24, 2006 the representatives informed that they had located some of Diomedes Obed García Sánchez’s next of kin. On May 25 and 31, and June 23, 2006 the State presented part of the documentation requested as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case. 30. On August 25, 2006 the Secretariat requested that the representatives forward, no later than September 4, 2006, certain information and documents as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case. 31. On September 4, 2006 the representatives presented the evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case, in response to the request made by the President in his note of August 25, 2006. On September 6, 2006 the Secretariat granted the Commission and the State an unpostponable term until September 12, 2006 so they could, if they considered it convenient, present the observations to the sworn statement of Mrs. Dilcia Álvarez Ríos presented by the representatives as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case. On September 11, 2006 the Commission informed that it did not have any observations regarding said evidence. On September 13, 2006 the State presented its observations to the mentioned sworn statement of Mrs. Dilcia Álvarez Ríos. V EVIDENCE