UN General Assembly
1958

77. It is this thesis — which has so long a history and yet has been so little applied in practice — that my country wishes to put forward here in the United Nations. My country, which is one of the poorest in Latin America and is land-locked, has had the courage to carry through far-reaching revolutionary changes in order to complete the work begun in the wars of independence and to make the organs of Government fully democratic. Bolivia believes that the problem of its tin, its tungsten, its basic minerals and its oil must be attacked not only on a national basis but also in conformity with its sense of geographical solidarity and of involvement in the destiny of the Latin-American countries. American geographical solidarity must be based on the principle that all the peoples which share in our common destiny have common spiritual frontiers.