UN General Assembly
1950

143. Non-Self-Governing Territories: the Guatemalan delegation will also continue, as in previous years, to support any step which may tend to improve the political, economic, social and cultural conditions of peoples of territories which are still dependent or under the Trusteeship System. Guatemala does not believe that the colonial system is the best way to educate people or to guide them towards independence and self-government. We think, on the contrary, that the colonial period already belongs to history, and that the subjugation of some peoples to others can no longer be admitted in the world of today. The remnants of colonialism still remaining in some parts of the world are a source of disturbance and constant disputes.