6 public hearing convened by the President be suspended. The following day, the Commission informed the Court that it had studied the proposed friendly settlement and that, in its view, the proposal needed to be examined during the hearing convened by the President for June 11, 1998. 28. On June 3, 1998, on instructions from the President, the Secretariat advised the State and the Commission that the hearing scheduled for June 11, 1998, would be held as planned and that there the Court would take up the terms of the proposed friendly settlement. 29. On June 4, 1998, the State submitted to the Court a certified copy of the settlement agreement that it had concluded with Mr. Luis Benavides Enriquez and Ms. Rosa Maria Cevallos, parents of Ms. Benavides Cevallos, on February 20, 1998. 30. On June 5, 1998, the Commission sent various documents to the Court, all related to the proposed friendly settlement. 31. That same day, the organization Rights International filed an amicus curiae3 brief. 32. At its seat on June 11, 1998, the Court held two public hearings into the instant case. There appeared before the Court: For the State of Ecuador: Laura Donoso de León, Agent and Francisco Proaño A., Ambassador; For the Inter-American Commission: Robert Goldman, Delegate; Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Attorney; Alejandro Ponce Villacís, Assistant and Richard Wilson, Assistant; And as representative of the victim’s next of kin: Robert Goldman, who served in this capacity during the second hearing by virtue of a special power of attorney given by the victim’s brother and sister, who were present for the hearing. 3 As is the practice of the Court with documents of this nature, the brief filed by Rights International was not formally introduced into the case file.