5 23. In a letter of November 30, 1982, the petitioner again referred to the facts of the case; the Commission forwarded this letter to the Government on December 20, 1982. The Government responded on January 24, 1983. 24. The Commission also received letters from the petitioner dated February 28 and September 13, 1983 and March 22, 1984, in which he made various observations regarding the allegations. 25. At its 63rd Session, the Commission adopted Resolution 16/84 of October 4, 1984, whose operative parts read as follows: 1. To declare that the acts denounced constituted serious violations of the right to life (Art. 4) and the right to personal liberty (Art. 7) of the American Convention on Human Rights and that the Government of Honduras is responsible for the disappearance of Francisco Fairén Garbi and Yolanda Solís Corrales, both Costa Rican nationals. 2. To recommend to the Government of Honduras: a) that it order the most thorough investigation of the acts denounced in order to determine the circumstances of the disappearance of Francisco Fairén Garbi and Yolanda Solís Corrales; b) that it punish those responsible, in accordance with Honduran law; and c) that it inform the Commission within 90 days on the measures taken to carry out these recommendations. 3. To transmit this Resolution to the Government of Honduras. 4. If the Government of Honduras does not submit its observations within the time limit set out in paragraph 2 supra, the Commission shall include this Resolution in its Annual Report to the General Assembly, pursuant to Article 59(g) of its Regulations, and shall transmit this Resolution to the claimant in the instant case. 26. On October 29, 1984, the Government requested the reconsideration of Resolution 16/84 on the grounds that the persons who had disappeared had left its territory, presumably for Guatemala; that it would consent to the exhumation of the body found in La Montañita, following the procedure established by the laws of Honduras; and that it had given specific orders to the authorities to investigate the allegations contained in the petition. The Government also argued that it had established a high-level Investigatory Commission to shed light on the facts and to establish the appropriate legal responsibilities and that "with the firm conviction that in this case -as shown in paragraph 10 of the Resolution-- the remedies provided on the national plane have not been exhausted, (it had) decided to forward all the documentation on this deplorable matter to the Investigatory Commission so that it might reopen the investigation and verify the truth of the allegations." 27. On March 15, 1985, the Commission forwarded the relevant parts of the Government's request for reconsideration to the petitioner, who presented his response in a communication of April 19, 1985. 28. On April 7, 1986, the Government informed the Commission that