UN General Assembly
1957

Nor can world problems be solved without regard for the interests of this important group of American States, with their steadily expanding populations and their increasing importance in international trade. America has not united to fight any State or group of States, but to obtain the benefit both of inter-American co-operation and of co-operation with groups outside the continent. In accordance with its Charter, our American organization discharges a function of world importance which is in complete accord with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations. Like all American States, Ecuador has derived great benefit from its ties both with the regional and the world Organization and has always striven for the greatest possible harmony between the work of these two institutions.