5 answer to the application (supra para. 12) and in its attending clarification brief (supra para. 14). As regards the Commission, it filed its own observations on May 31, 2005, after a delay had been granted it. 16. On June 21, 2005 the Secretariat informed the parties that, after analyzing the main briefs filed by the Inter-American Commission, the representatives and the State, the Inter-American Court in full considered that in the instant case it was not necessary to convene a public hearing. On the same day, the Secretariat, for its part, following instructions by the President, requested the Inter-American Commission and the representatives to forward the final listings of the witnesses and of the expert witnesses each of them proposed. 17. On July 7, 2005 the Secretariat, following instructions by the President, requested the State, pursuant to Article 45(2) of the Rules of Procedure, to file, as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case, the documents relating to the procedures undertaken at the domestic level in connection with the forced disappearance of Mr. Gómez-Palomino. Such request was reiterated to the State by means of notes issued by the Secretariat on August 25 and on September 20, 2005. Likewise, on August 25, 2005 the Secretariat, following instructions by the President, requested the representatives to cooperate by doing all they could to have the documents requested from Peru reach the Tribunal, as evidence to facilitate the adjudication of the case. Such request was repeated on October 3, 2005 (infra para. 20). 18. On August 19, 2005 the President issued an Order in which he deemed it fit to receive, by means of an affidavit, the testimonies of Mrs. Victoria Margarita Palomino-Buitrón and Mrs. Esmila Liliana Conislla-Cárdenas and the report by the expert witness Mrs. Sofía Macher, proposed by the Commission, as well as the report by the expert witness Mrs. María del Pilar Raffo-Lavalle de Quiñones, proposed by the representatives. Likewise, the President granted a strict ten-day delay, as from the reception of such affidavits, for the Commission, the representatives and the State to file the observations they might consider pertinent. Furthermore, in such Order the President informed the parties that they had a non-extendable time period up to October 7, 2005 to file their final written arguments on the merits and possibly reparations and costs. 19. On September 16, 2005 the representatives forwarded the report carried out before a public official whose acts command full faith and credit by of the expert witness María del Pilar Raffo-Lavalle de Quiñones. Likewise, on September 19, 2005 the Inter-American Commission forwarded the affidavits by witnesses Mrs. Victoria Margarita Palomino-Buitrón and Esmila Liliana Conislla-Cárdenas, as well as the affidavit by the expert witness Sofía Macher, in compliance with the Order issued by the President on August 18, 2005 (supra para. 18). 20. On September 30, 2005 the Commission and the State each informed that they had no observations to make regarding the affidavits filed (supra para. 19). 21. On September 30, 2005 the State filed part of the evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case requested by the Tribunal. On October 4, 2005 the Secretariat, following instructions by the President, asked the State and the