UN General Assembly
1963

38. Thus, over a period of ten years the delegation of Mexico has had close to its heart the ideal of universalizing the American Treaty on Pacific Settlement —not of course, in the literal sense, but as regards the application of its essential principles— and thereby creating a true system of peace rather than a mere series of arrangements to ward off aggression. The Soviet draft just referred to has seemed to us to be a new opportunity or a fresh possibility of disseminating our Inter-American peace system throughout the world. For that reason, my delegation is now returning to this idea of the past and thinks this an appropriate moment for the General Assembly to make a declaration at least expressing the hope that one day a system will be built up by the Member States for the pacific settlement of the disputes which may arise between them.