UN General Assembly
1982

145. Ecuador lives within a democratic system with full respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms as laid down in its Constitution and in relevant international instruments. My country upholds the need for universal respect for human rights without the selectivity as to their violations that leads to covering up in certain regions what is criticized in others. It also maintains that it is proper for each State member of the international community to report of its own accord and in such international forums as this on the observance of those rights within their borders. 146. In this regard, the Constitutional President of Ecuador, Mr. Osvaldo Hurtado, stated at the opening of the session of the Ecuadorian Parliament this year that for ... the Government has scrupulously respected public freedoms in such a manner that it can proudly report that in the course of the past year no act tending to limit them has occurred. The political parties, the trade unions, the chambers of commerce and the information media have been given the widest guaranty’s for the