UN General Assembly
1972

85. It seems appropriate to us that the item on international terrorism should have been included on the agenda of this session [item 92]. Barbarous acts like these merit punishment and the condemnation of all peoples, regardless of the ideological system under which one attempts to conceal them. 86. In 1970 Mexico defined terrorist acts in its penal laws. Furthermore, within the system of the Organization of American States, we attended in February 1971 a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization which had been convened in Washington for that very purpose, and we signed the final document adopted by the Council.