7. The brief of August 5, 2011, and its annexes, in which the State forwarded its final written arguments. 8. The brief of August 8, 2011 and its annexes, in which the representatives presented their final written arguments. 9. The brief of August 8, 2011, in which the Commission forwarded its final written observations. 10. The note of August 19, 2011, in which the Secretariat indicated that it had taken note of the State’s request that the Court “make a field visit to the Río Bobonaza Communities so that it can observe in situ the legal and socio-environmental complexity of the case that is being litigated,” and the reiteration, during the public hearing, of the request it had made for the Court to “appoint an international expert to evaluate and propose a technical and methodological solution to the matter of the pentolite on the land of the Sarayaku Indigenous People.” In addition, on the instructions of the President, the Secretariat advised “that such requests w[ould] be duly submitted to the consideration of the plenum of the Court.” 11. The brief of August 24, 2011, in which the Commission indicated, with regard to the State’s invitation for the Court to make a field visit to the Río Bobonaza Communities, that “the Court was empowered to take a decision in relation to this invitation; therefore, [it had] no observations to make in this regard.” 12. The brief of September 1, 2011, in which the State “again asked the Court to make a field visit to the Río Bobonaza Communities”. 13. The communication of September 28, 2011, in which the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration of Ecuador forwarded a letter dated September 20, 2011, signed by the Constitutional President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa Delgado, and addressed to the President of the Court “to ratify and formalize the invitation issued by the State’s agents during the hearing held in San José, Costa Rica, on July 6 and 7, 2011, [for] the Inter-American Court make an official visit [to his country].” 14. The note of October 11, 2011, in which the Secretariat advised that the Court had ordered that “the said communications be forwarded to the representatives and the Commission, indicating that, if they had any observations or comments to make concerning that aspect of the communication signed by the President of the Republic of Ecuador, they should forward them by October 18, 2011, at the latest.” 15. The brief of October 18, 2011, in which the representatives forwarded their observations on the said invitation. 16. The brief of October 20, 2011, in which the Commission presented its observations on the said invitation. 17. The note of October 21, 2011, in which the Secretariat advised that, on the instructions of the President, the State, the representatives and the Commission were granted until October 27, 2011, to “submit their comments on the observations made by the parties to date in relation to the said invitation.” 18. The brief of October 26, 2011, in which the Commission indicated that it reiterated its observations (supra para. 16). 2