7 32. On December 27, 1999, the State requested a further extension for submitting its comments on the briefs and the evidence on reparations. On January 5, 2000, the President granted this extension until May 2, 2000. 33. On February 25, 2000, the Secretariat requested the Commission and the next of kin of Pablo Corado Barrientos and Erick Leonardo Chinchilla to submit the list of the witnesses and experts who would give testimony at the public hearing on reparations. On May 24 that year, the Commission submitted a list with some of the names of the experts and witnesses that it proposed for the public hearing. This list was completed on the following June 12. On June 19, 2000, the President made some comments to the Commission and, in particular, that it had been verified that the Commission had included the name of a witness who had not been proposed in its brief on reparations. Consequently, he granted until the following June 26 for the victims or their next of kin and the State to forward their respective comments. Neither the victims nor, when appropriate, their next of kin, nor the State remitted any comment during this period. On June 27, 2000, the Commission sent a communication in which it emphasized that the witness who had been proposed for the first time in the list of witnesses and experts would not appear and, in her place, one of the persons included in the brief on reparations would testify. It also advised that two of the experts proposed could not attend the hearing and that it was seeking a replacement. On June 30, 2000, the Commission forwarded the names of the experts and their respective curricula vitae. On July 3, 2000, copies of the documents remitted by the Commission were forwarded to the parties and the State was given until the following July 5 to submit its observations. No document was remitted before the deadline had expired. 34. On March 8, 2000, the President informed the parties that a public hearing on reparations had been programmed for June that year. On April 7, 2000, the President informed the parties that, due to budget cuts ordered by the Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs of the Organization of American State, “the Court [was] obliged to suspend [the forty-eighth] regular session.” 35. On April 7, August 7 and November 13, 2000, the State appointed as agent in substitution of the acting agent, José Briz Gutiérrez, Enrique D. Barascout and Jorge Mario García Laguardia, respectively. 36. On April 28, 2000, Guatemala requested a further extension to submit its brief on reparations. Considering the Court’s program of work, the President granted the State until June 9 that year. 37. On June 9, 2000, the State remitted its brief with comments on the reparations requested. The original and the annexes to this brief were received by the Secretariat on June 13, 2000. 38. On July 5, 2000, the President summoned the victims or, when appropriate, their next of kin or representatives, the Commission and the State to a public hearing on reparations to be held as of August 11, 2000, at the seat of the Court. 39. On July 10, 2000, the Commission requested the Court to expand the list of persons summoned to the pubic hearing on reparations in order to include Blanca Esperanza Ayala de la Cruz who, despite having been duly proposed in the brief on reparations, had not been included on the list of witnesses and experts (supra 33),