4 consider applying Article 42 (formerly 39) of its Regulations and presume the allegations to the true. 18. Although it reiterated its request for information on October 6, 1982, March 23 and August 9, 1983, the Commission received no reply. 19. At its 61st Session, the Commission adopted Resolution 30/83 of October 4, 1983, whose operative parts read as follows: 1. By application of Article 39 of the Regulations, to presume as true the allegations contained in the communication of October 7, 1981, concerning the detention and disappearance of Angel Manfredo Velásquez Rodríguez in the Republic of Honduras. 2. To point out to the Government of Honduras that such acts are most serious violations of the right to life (Art. 4) and the right to personal liberty (Art. 7) of the American Convention on Human Rights. 3. To recommend to the Government of Honduras: (a) that it order a thorough and impartial investigation to determine who is responsible for the acts denounced; (b) that it punish those responsible in accordance with Honduran law; and (c) that it inform the Commission within 60 days, especially about the measures taken to carry out these recommendations. 4. If the Government of Honduras does not submit its observations within the time limit set out in paragraph 3 supra, the Commission shall include this Resolution in its Annual Report to the General Assembly pursuant to Article 59(g) of its Regulations. 20. On November 18, 1983, the Government requested the reconsideration of Resolution 30/83 on the grounds that domestic remedies had not been exhausted, that the Dirección Nacional de Investigación had no knowledge of the whereabouts of Velásquez Rodríguez, that the Government was making every effort to find him, and that there were rumors that Velásquez Rodríguez was "with Salvadoran guerrilla groups." 21. On May, 30, 1984, the Commission informed the Government that it had decided at its 62nd Session (May 1984), "in light of the information submitted by the Honorable Government, to reconsider Resolution 30/83 and to continue its study of the case." The Commission also asked the Government to provide information on the exhaustion of domestic legal remedies and other matters relevant to the case. 22. On January 29, 1985, the Commission repeated its request of May 30, 1984 and notified the Government that it would render a final decision on this case at its meeting in March 1985. On March 1 of that year, the Government asked for a postponement of the final decision and reported that it had set up an Investigatory Commission to study the matter. The Commission agreed to the Government's request on March 11, granting it thirty days in which to present the information requested. 23. On April 7, 1986, the Government provided information about the outcome of the proceeding that had been brought before the First Criminal Court of behalf of Velásquez Rodríguez and other persons who had disappeared. According to that information, the tribunal had dismissed the complaints "except as they applied to General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez, because he had left the country and has not given testimony." This decision was later affirmed by the First Court of Appeals.