8 General. The President also informed the parties in this order that they had until October 24, 2005, to present their final written arguments on the preliminary objection and merits, reparations and costs. 24. On August 4, 2005, the State advised that the name of the person whose statement it had proposed in his capacity as Deputy Prosecutor General was Jorge Armando Otalora Gómez. 25. On August 5, 2005, the State requested the Court to revoke its decision to reject, as time-barred, the testimony of Jaime Jaramillo Panesso, contained in the President’s order of July 28, 2005 (supra para. 23). 26. On August 9, 2005, on the instructions of the President, the Commission and the representatives were granted a non-extendible period of three days from reception of the State’s communication of August 5, 2005, to submit any observations they deemed pertinent. 27. On August 12, 2005, the Commission presented its observations on the State’s offer of Jorge Armando Otalora Gómez, Deputy Prosecutor General, as a witness, and also on the State’s request to revoke the decision to reject, as timebarred, the testimony of Jaime Jaramillo Panesso, contained in the President’s order of July 28, 2005 (supra para. 23). 28. On August 19, 2005, the parties were notified of an order of the President of the Court, convening the witnesses proposed by the State, Jorge Armando Otalora Gómez and Jaime Jaramillo Panesso, to provide their testimony in a statement made before notary public (affidavit), by September 2, 2005, at the latest. 29. On August 19, 2005, the representatives presented their observations on the State’s request to revoke the decision to reject, as time-barred, the testimony of Jaime Jaramillo Panesso, contained in the President’s order of July 28, 2005 (supra para. 23). The observations were received by the Secretariat after notification of the President’s order of August 19, 2005; the observations were therefore rejected as time-barred. 30. On August 22, 2005, the State presented the expert testimony given before notary public (affidavit) by Hernán Sanín Posada. On September 16, 2005, the State presented the original and the attachments to this expert evidence. 31. On August 22, 2005, the representatives submitted the sworn statements of the ten persons that the President had requested in his order of July 28, 20053 (supra para. 23), and also the expert evidence given before notary public (affidavit) of Alfredo de los Ríos. 32. On August 23, 2005, the Commission presented the sworn statements of the six persons that the President had requested in his order of July 28, 20054 (supra 3 The representatives and the witnesses themselves requested that their names should remain confidential for reasons of safety. 4 The Commission and the witnesses themselves requested that their names should remain confidential for reasons of safety.