UN General Assembly
2011

and Latin America, and we enthusiastically support the creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. In another crucial area, we regard as an important step towards resolving our age-old territorial dispute with Belize the signing of the Special Agreement, which, when the domestic juridical processes are concluded, will enable both countries to seek a legal solution through the International Court of Justice. I am pleased to report that the Congress of Guatemala has approved the Agreement unanimously. The next step will be to submit it to a national referendum. In the ancestral Mayan calendar today is the day of balance, the day of dawn, the day that the Guacamaya sings, announcing the coming of a new dawn. Today we have come together to witness a new dawn. It should be the dawn of peace, the dawn of less poverty, the dawn of harmony and above all the dawn of respect for fundamental human rights.