4 Susana Villarán, Delegate María Claudia Pulido, adviser Isabel Madariaga, adviser for the victims’ representatives: Fernando Arturo López Antillón, representative Lucy Turner, representative Juan Pablo Pons, representative for the State of Guatemala: Herbert Estuardo Meneses Coronado, Agent Luis Ernesto Cáceres Rodríguez, Deputy Agent Mayra Alarcón Alba, Executive Director of the Presidential Commission for coordinating Executive Policy on Human Rights (COPREDEH); witnesses proposed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Juan Manuel Jerónimo Buenaventura Manuel Jerónimo, and Narcisa Corazón Jerónimo expert witnesses proposed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Augusto Willemsen-Díaz, and Nieves Gómez Dupuis. 15. During the first part of the public hearing, the State declared orally and in writing that it withdrew the preliminary objections it had filed and acknowledged its international responsibility in this case. The Inter-American Commission and the representatives, respectively, stated during the public hearing, and in writing, that they accepted the State’s acknowledgement of responsibility. The same day, Guatemala presented a second brief in which it referred to the position of the Commission and the representatives regarding its acknowledgement of international responsibility. 16. On April 23, 2004, following the conclusion of the first part of the public hearing and the presentation of the abovementioned briefs, the Court issued an order in which it decided to accept the withdrawal of all the preliminary objections filed by the State; to admit the State’s acknowledgement of international responsibility; to continue holding the public hearing convened in the order of the President of February 19, 2004, (supra para. 11), and to restrict its purpose to reparations and costs. The statements of the witnesses and expert witnesses who had been convened, and the arguments of the Inter-American Commission, the representatives, and the State were heard during this public hearing. 17. During the same public hearing before the Court, the expert witness, Nieves Gómez Dupuis, delivered a written report entitled “Informe sobre el daño a la salud mental derivado de la Masacre de Plan de Sánchez para la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos” [Report to the Inter-American Court of Human Right on the damage to mental health resulting from the Plan de Sánchez Massacre]. 18. On April 29, 2004, the Inter-American Court delivered its judgment on merits, in which it decided, unanimously: