5 (affidavits) by the witnesses, Conchita Mazariegos Tobías and Eduardo Zachrisson Castillo. The State also advised that, for personal reasons, María Concepción Reinhardt Mosquera, was unable to make a statement before public notary, consequently, it would not be submitted. 24. On May 31, 2005, the Inter-American Commission forwarded the statement made before notary public (affidavit) by the expert witness, Alberto Martín Binder. 25. On June 3, 2005, the State presented its observations on the statements made by Ovidio Girón Vásquez, Ronald Raxcacó Reyes, and Aída Castro-Conde. The representatives and the Inter-American Commission did not submit observations on the affidavits presented by the State. On June 8, 2005, the State presented its observations on the expert evidence of Alberto Martín Binder. 26. On June 3, 2005, Amnesty International submitted an amicus curiae brief in this case. 27. On June 3 and 6, 2005, respectively, the State, the representatives and the Inter-American Commission presented their final written arguments on merits and possible reparations and costs. The representatives submitted documentation on costs and expenses with their final written arguments. 28. On July 6, 2005, on the instructions of the President, the Secretariat requested the State to present certain documentation as helpful evidence, in accordance with Article 45(2) of the Rules of Procedure. 29. On July 26, 2005, Guatemala presented part of the helpful evidence requested by the Court. V PROVISIONAL MEASURES 30. On August 16, 2004, the Commission submitted to the Inter-American Court a request for provisional measures pursuant to the provisions of Articles 63(2) of the American Convention and 25 of the Rules of Procedure, to be adopted urgently so that Guatemala would adopt the necessary measures to preserve the lives and physical integrity, including suspension of the executions, of Ronald Raxcacó Reyes, Hugo Humberto Ruiz Fuentes, Bernardino Rodríguez Lara and Pablo Arturo Ruiz Almengor, all of them sentenced to death, in order not to obstruct the processing of their cases before the inter-American system. 31. On August 30, 2004, the Court issued an order concerning the request for provisional measures requested by the Commission, in which it decided: 1. To enjoin the State to adopt, forthwith, the necessary measures to protect the lives of Ronald Ernesto Raxcacó Reyes, Hugo Humberto Ruiz Fuentes, Bernardino Rodríguez Lara and Pablo Arturo Ruiz Almengor in order not to obstruct the processing of their cases before the inter-American system for the protection of human rights. 2. To enjoin the State to inform the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, within fifteen days of notification of the [...] order, of the measures adopted to comply with it. 3. To enjoin the representatives of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures that had been ordered to submit their observations on the State’s report within one