UN General Assembly
1958

108. I shall dwell only briefly oh the third and last of the three points which I enumerated: the right of peoples to self-determination. The efforts of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories to attain full self-government deserve our warmest sympathy. That is why we welcomed with real gratification the admission to the United Nations of new Member States from Asia and Africa, whose entry into the international community is a happy augury of an era when the colonial system will have been entirely liquidated. 109. The principle of self-determination enshrined in the Charter and its corollary, non-intervention, have been steadfastly championed by the Mexican people since it won its independence over a century ago. We have always rejected the claim of other States, however powerful, to assert their hegemony, because it is incompatible with our sovereign rights, just as we scrupulously respect the rights of others.