Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has met the families of 43 students who went missing last month.
They travelled to Mexico City from the state of Guerrero, where the students disappeared after clashing with police.
Prior to the meeting, the families said they would ask the president to do more to find the students.
He has promised to investigate the case and make sure the perpetrators are brought to justice. So far, 56 people have been arrested.
Among them are police officers, local officials and alleged members of drugs gangs.
A lawyer for the families, Vidulfo Rosales, told local media they wanted President Pena Nieto to "listen to their dissatisfaction, anger and indignation from the lack of results in finding their children".
Before seeing the president, the parents also met Mexico's Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong and Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam.
President Pena Nieto has promised investigate the case and bring the perpetrators to justice The disappearances have shocked Mexico and sparked nationwide demonstrations, with thousands of people on the streets to demand they be found.
The state governor of Guerrero has been replaced after he resigned over the case.
Arrest warrantsFederal police are using boats and divers to scour the beds of several rivers near Iguala, where the abductions took place.
A manhunt also continues for Jose Luis Abarca, the mayor of the town of Iguala who is on the run.
Arrest warrants have also been issued for his wife and the police chief. They are also fugitives.
The mayor allegedly ordered the police to intercept the students, who were protesting, to prevent them from interrupting a speech his wife was giving in Iguala on 26 September.
The search for the students is continuing Eyewitnesses say they saw the students being bundled into police cars after the police shot at buses carrying the students, killing three of them and three other people in nearby vehicles.
The prosecutor said gang members then loaded them onto a lorry and took them to Pueblo Viejo.
Mass graves have been found there, laying bare the extent of the rampant killings in the region, which law enforcement officials blame on ongoing drug-related violence.
Forensic tests initially suggested 30 bodies found there were not those of the students, but Argentine forensic experts flown in to help with the investigation have been carrying out further tests on all the bodies.
Thirty bodies have so far been found in a series of burial pits on the outskirts of Iguala Mexico head meets students' families
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