UN General Assembly
1977

157. It is to be hoped that this Assembly, in the name of all the peoples represented here, will also make manifest its support for the agreements which the Administration of the United States reached with the Government of Panama. This would convince the Congress of the United States that these treaties were negotiated not with only a small and weak nation but with a people which, because of the justice of its cause, has the full support of the international community. 158. In his report this year the Secretary-General, Mr. Waldheim, puts these crucial questions: What... is the real position of the United Nations in the affairs of the world? Is it really a central element in the foreign policies of most Governments? 159. My delegation endorses the important considerations advanced by our Secretary-General in regard to those questions and, in a desire to assist his deliberation, I would venture to add the following comments. 160. The United Nations is in itself three different institutions which nevertheless form one whole, and each is of immense value to Member States.