Mexico should back the UN decision on disappearances. It is also essential to guarantee comprehensive protection for relatives and defenders, consolidate reliable national registries, combat impunity, and recognize the right to truth and memory. The body emphasized that the institutional response should not focus on the political discrediting of the UN Committee's decision. The institutional response must not and cannot focus on the political discrediting of the Committee's decision, but rather on collaborating with the procedure to be carried out by the Assembly. In the same communiqué, it urged the Mexican government to accept any international help that may be offered. 'We urge the government to accept the international help that may be extended to achieve verifiable, measurable results in terms of locating persons, identifying remains, prosecuting those responsible, and comprehensive reparation for the victims,' stated the head of the body. The Mexican Bar Association noted that cooperation with international human rights protection mechanisms should not be seen as interference, but as an opportunity to strengthen the rule of law, justice, and public trust. Mexico cannot normalize the pain of thousands of families or delay the response that this national tragedy demands. Finally, it was considered that complying with international recommendations is 'a legal, ethical, and civilizational obligation,' concluded Ana María Kudisch Castelló, president of the Mexican Bar Association. The Mexican Bar Association, College of Attorneys, A.C., led by Ana María Kudisch Castelló, called on the Mexican State to heed the recommendations issued by the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances to prevent, investigate, punish, and eradicate enforced disappearances in the country. Through a communiqué, the body published the request amid the crisis of forced disappearances and the referral of Mexico's situation to the United Nations General Assembly. 'The objective is to refer the Mexican situation to the United Nations General Assembly so that it may consider adopting measures to support the State party in preventing, investigating, punishing, and eradicating enforced disappearances in Mexico,' the body indicated. The organization considered it 'indispensable' to conduct a thorough investigation into the allegations of enforced disappearances and links between public officials and organized crime pointed out by the said Committee. It also highlighted the need to establish an effective mechanism to clarify the truth and provide assistance and protection to families searching for their loved ones and the organizations or defenders who support them. Additionally, the Mexican Bar Association urged the Powers of the Union, federal and local authorities, as well as the prosecutor's offices and search commissions, to strengthen search mechanisms and professionalize ministerial and judicial investigations.
