UN General Assembly
1948

In connexion with the proposal (A/241) submitted to the United Nations Assembly in November 1946 for breaking off relations with the Spanish Government and imposing other sanctions, the Government of Peru had stated its view that, according to the investigation carried out by the Security Council’s Sub-Committee, the Spanish Government did not constitute an actual threat to peace such as would permit the application of the coercive measures envisaged in the Charter. Only the Assembly, it had subsequently declared, was competent to consider whether action should be taken to promote realization of the rights and fundamental freedoms envisaged in Article 13 of the Charter, since it was clear that any action taken by it, to be equitable, had to be extended to all the nations in which freedom was being restricted.