UN General Assembly
1964

"To our immediate neighbours to the north and to the south, we reaffirm our resolute will to make our relations with them an example of cordial and constructive coexistence. "The Charter of Punta del Este set the formal seal of a hemispheric agreement on objectives which the Mexican people has long sought, in the most noble of its struggles. It leaves to each country the responsibility for planning and directing its own progress; but it makes social justice the prerequisite and condition for that progress, and prescribes cooperation as a complementary though indispensable tool in the long, difficult but noble task of raising the level of living which is so desperately low in many rural areas of America. "It is unfair to Mexico to describe it as wishing to set itself up as a leader of Latin America. We make no such claim, nor do we desire such a status.