7 11. The public hearing took place on May 17, 2011, during the forty-third special session of the Court held in Panama City, Republic of Panama.9 12. On June 10, 2011, the representatives of the alleged victims advised that “following conversations with officials of the State of El Salvador, both parties agree[d] to present a joint proposal on the ‘structural psycho-social support response’” and that “conversations were ongoing on the adoption of measures by the Salvadoran State to provide the necessary conditions for Gregoria Herminia Contreras to return to El Salvador, accompanied by her family.” They therefore requested “a one-month extension of the deadline established for presentation of the final [written] arguments.” In this regard, on the instructions of the President of the Court, they were informed that the time frame established in the Order of April 14, 2011, was non-extendible and, consequently, the representatives were not granted the requested extension. Nevertheless, should an agreement be reached, the parties were requested to inform the Court. At the time it delivered this judgment, the Court had not received any agreement. 13. On June 17, 2011, the representative and the State submitted their final written arguments, and the Inter-American Commission submitted its final written observations in the case. The briefs were forwarded to the parties so that the representatives, the State and the Commission could make any observations they deemed pertinent, as appropriate, on the documents presented as attachments (infra paras. 36 and 37) and the information submitted at the Court’s request.10 The representatives, the State and the Commission submitted their observations on July 11, 2011. 9 The following people attended the hearing: (a) for the Inter-American Commission: Luz Patricia Mejía, Commissioner; Silvia Serrano Guzmán and Karla Quintana Osuna, Lawyers; (b) for the representatives: María Ester Alvarenga Chinchilla and Elsy Lourdes Flores Sosa from the Search Association, and Gisela Leticia De León De Sedas and Luis Carlos Buob Concha, from CEJIL; and (c) for the Republic of El Salvador: Arnoldo Bernal Chévez, Ambassador of the Republic of El Salvador, accredited to Panama; David Ernesto Morales Cruz, Director General for Human Rights of the Foreign Ministry and the State’s Agent for this specific case; Matilde Guadalupe Hernández de Espinoza, Director of Childhood and Adolescence of the Social Inclusion Secretariat, and Gloria Evelyn Martínez Ramos, expert from the Foreign Ministry’s Human Rights General Directorate. 10 Specifically, they were requested to submit information and supporting documentation, where relevant, on the following: a) the possibility of devoting resources to publish reconstructions of the faces of the disappeared children as they might be today as a possible means of identifying them. b) the actions taken or that could be taking to obtain information and identify the children who lived and grew up in military facilities. c) the specific components of the so-called “psycho-social structural support response,” including at least, the following three fundamental aspects: (i) the exact specific functions and objectives of the so-called integral psychological-social reparation program, the number of people included, and the duration of the reparation; (ii) the structure or institutional integration of the program; in other words, whether it was proposed to include it within existing structures or to set up a separate structure, and iii) the time frames for putting the program into operation and for achieving gradual results. In particular, the representatives of the alleged victims and the State were asked to report on the possibility of moving forward with a joint proposal in this regard. d) the time it would take to conclude the process of restoring the identity to Gregoria Herminia and her children. In addition, the Inter-American Commission was asked to submit as helpful evidence the attachments (volume I and II) to the Report of the Truth Commission for El Salvador: From Madness to Hope, the 12-year war in El Salvador, 1992-1993. The representatives were also asked to provide information on the place where Gregoria Herminia Contreras and her family reside, as well as the full names and dates of birth of her children and the information on her husband or partner.