By then, the Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel had made an international appeal that with the support of the French government which obtained the response of the General Assembly in the form of resolution 33/173 of 20 December 1978, which specifically referred to "missing persons" and requested the Commission on Human Rights to make appropriate recommendations.
Para entón, o premio Nobel Adolfo Pérez Esquivel fixera un chamamento internacional que co apoio do goberno de Francia obtivo a resposta da Asemblea Xeral en forma da resolución 33/173 do 20 de decembro de 1978 onde se refería especificamente ás "persoas desaparecidas" e pedíase á Comisión de Dereitos Humanos que formulase as recomendacións apropiadas.