UN General Assembly
1975

67. With respect to the recent events in Spain, I wish, firmly and calmly, to support the message submitted to the Security Council by Mexico on 28 September 1975.2 We are convinced that, both technically and politically, reason is on our side: technically, because this petition is in accordance with the terms of the Charter of the United Nations, which gives every Member State the right to denounce situations of this type before the Security Council; and politically, because the events we are dealing with not only constitute repeated violations of human rights, but, over and above all, are evidence of the systematic creation of a climate of violent confrontation that may easily lead to international friction and endanger the maintenance of peace in an area of the world where, because of its strategic importance, it could constitute a threat to world security. This has been demonstrated by the magnitude of the protest which this case has aroused throughout the world. And, inevitably, history will prove it true.