UN General Assembly
1959

It is fundamentally in the interest of the peoples of Latin America, constantly threatened as they are by quotas, subsidies and dumping, to uphold the principle of multilateral negotiation with regard to any change in their trade relations, as established by the Conference of Foreign Ministers at Washington, and to continue to recognize the decisive importance for the future of America of both Operation Pan-America and its most recent offshoot, the Committee of Nine setup at Buenos Aires to defend our weak economies against the onslaughts of the great monopolies of capital and technical skill and to keep alive the close solidarity among our peoples which the crusading zeal of Operation Pan-America brought into being.