UN General Assembly
1964

42. The revolution has brought about a reappraisal of all human values beginning with the abolition of slavery, of all resources, all achievements and all the implications of demographic pressures and man’s impact on his environment. In response to the moral demands being made at this turning point in history, it is planning a liberation from all servitudes, it demands the equitable redistribution of wealth, the revision of the concepts of solidarity and co-operation, a new stride forward in integration and the right of the peoples of America to the boons of civilization and to happiness, without which the promise of today’s alliance will remain unfulfilled like illusions of progress. 43. Those are the desiderata of the Haitian revolution, which brings into close balance the programme of the rehabilitation of the Haitian people and the salvation of their sacred patrimony. That patrimony is being threatened by murderous waves of invasion directed against the territorial integrity and constitutional order of Haiti by gangs of refugees, aided and abetted by mercenaries and by the duplicity of certain foreign Powers.