UN General Assembly
1963

44. I should now like to touch on a problem which has been and still is of concern to my country, namely, the problem of the dependent territories. 45. I shall not at this time attempt a recapitulation, even a brief one, of the evidence provided by my country in both its national and international life of its devotion to the principles of freedom which we have never considered apart from the principles of justice and the rule of law. I shall, however, cite one example, which is sufficient to illustrate Mexico's unswerving stand on the specific problem of the powers and the duties of the United Nations with regard to those peoples who in our time are still deprived of their liberties.